Vieready Blog Keep Re-inventing Yourself

"Keep re-inventing yourself through self-education, because industries change quickly."1 That's the essence of an article mentioned in the latest theladders.com newsletter, and I couldn't agree more. Sometimes that means taking additional training/education that will make you self-sufficient in certain areas. If you are waiting for others to educate you when you can quickly & easily take the lead, the road ahead is long and slow. What would a previous Harvard Business School's class advise you after looking back at their careers? "Keep re-inventing yourself through self-education, because industries change quickly." "Choosing the right career path was no trivial matter for Harvard Business School's Class of 1963. They were members of one of the last generations that considered a lifelong career with a company as nothing out of the ordinary. That's a stark contrast to the results of a 35-year study conducted by Chuck Pierret, an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. His report, released in 2010, found that the average American entering the workforce in 1979 held nearly 11 different jobs by the time she was 42 years [...]The post Keep Re-inventing Yourself appeared first on vieReady.