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10 Global Trends That Are Killing Your Career

Failure to Adapt to the New Working World Will Leave You in the Unemployment Line by 2020

8. Millenial Invasion

According to a recent study done by Mercer, in 2020 40% of the workforce will be comprised of "Millenials," people born after 1980. Many of these Millenials will hold leadership roles, and will expect others to subscribe to their value systems, beliefs, and behaviors. Workers who are successful working with teams, who are up on the latest tech, and who have plenty of innovative ideas and solutions, will do best in a Millenial environment.

Career killers: Lack of flexibility, integrity, and/or entrepreneurism; inability to keep pace with new expectations regarding speed and technology. 

 

  • Dawn Dugan

    Dawn Dugan specializes in writing books, articles, white papers, reports and special communications for the human resources industry. She is the co-author of Effective Executive Compensation, which was published by AMACOM in 2008. Read more...