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Breaking News: Jobs Will Never Get Back To Normal!
Written by: Roger IngbretsenArticle Overview: Rest assured… America is at a critical tipping point. The loss of high paying manufacturing jobs, now being followed by the outsourcing of technology jobs to other countries, must be understood by all Americans. This understanding must be followed by a very aggressive attempt to train, educate and re-skill millions of citizens so they are equipped with “new knowledge” to meet and beat the competition of a global economy.
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Breaking News: Jobs Will Never Get Back To Normal!
With regard to jobs, more change is coming! The Competition is
growing! Globalization is here! The world economy is bad and will get worse! Millions
of lost jobs will not return! Much like the alarming words spread by Paul
Revere on his legendary “midnight ride” this compelling message must be spread quickly
so Americans can better cope – and win – in our changing workplace environment.
However, just like the colonial militia, the workforce of today can soundly
beat and turn back the forces that threaten our collective economic well-being.
Going forward, the American worker can win and survive, only if they
collectively understand the demands of the new workplace, and take decisive and
appropriate action to attain the skills required to become a “knowledge worker.”
Rest assured… America is at a critical tipping
point. The loss of high paying manufacturing jobs, now being followed by the
outsourcing of technology jobs to other countries, must be understood by all
Americans. This understanding must be followed by a very aggressive attempt to
train, educate and re-skill millions of citizens so they are equipped with “new
knowledge” to meet and beat the competition of a global economy.
Globalization however is not the only enemy. The
enemy is also within. It is the enemy of complacency, of not taking seriously
the need for the aggressive “meaningful” education and training that is
required individually and collectively to beat the competition. The immediate and long-term collective
investment we make in preparing our citizens for the workplace, will assure
that our standard of living will at the very least remain competitive with the
rest of the world. For you the individual, you must aggressively search for and
obtain training in skilled knowledge based jobs which are in demand.
Building a workforce that can survive in the
future will require both revolutionary and evolutionary thinking and action by “all
sectors of our society.”
The reality is that we live and work in a global
economy and we compete with many highly skilled global players. We must refocus
our learning and education processes so they become value-added and strategic
in nature. We can no longer simply
cope and train in the same old way for the same old jobs. We must be out on the
leading edge of creating an innovative workforce for the jobs of the future.
The global forces of competition are creating
the need for individuals and organizations, public and private, to build the
capability to respond rapidly to market demands. No individual about to enter the
workplace or who is presently employed can afford to be unaware of the pace of
change and the new demands being expected of today’s workforce. Individual initiative
will be more important than ever.
Bottom line… The workplace will never get back
to what it was in the recent past. For those who seek the comfort of the good
old days, it will never be back to normal! Normal no longer exists!
So…Welcome to the new American workplace. It is,
and will be, more turbulent, unpredictable, and interconnected than in any other
time of human history. The structures of organizations are changing. This has
resulted in out-sourcing, multi-disciplinary teams, individuals working from
project to project, lack of clear functional identities, de-layering of
positions, lack of predictable rises in income and… the absence of security and
long term employment in one job.
Individuals who look for a job in virtually any
sector will need to “think strategically” and “act tactically” as never before.
A Very Important Point: The smartest and most savvy individuals will act
and think like “independent contractors” moving from project to project and
continually acquiring new and relevant skills.
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