You could set your watch by annual pay raises. Seniority was the standard for upward mobility, but that was long ago.
Survival today takes a lot more. If you have a job, you?re probably working harder and longer than you were ten years ago, earning fewer pay raises, benefits and languishing on the promotion stepladder.
People used to have career master-plans: Get a degree, get a job, and retire with a pension and full benefits. Today, career planning is an oxymoron. Technology, reengineering, and a global economy have altered the career landscape. To survive, you have to learn to manage your career and your life in a much different workplace.
You must understand that there is less loyalty and trust. Employers and employees today don?t expect lifelong commitments from each other anymore. Now you have the freedom to choose your own path.
There are fewer and fewer opportunities for upward mobility and downsizing means survivors usually work more.
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