CHANGING JOBS

Statistics tell us we can expect to change professions 3 times and jobs 6 times in our working lives. At the end of the 80's, worker's skills became obsolete in 7-14 years. Today's skills are obsolete in 3-5 years. Life in the 90's require us to look at our roles, relationships, routines and assumptions about ourselves. Diversity in the family structure, racial and ethnic changes and the aging all impact the work force. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts: three out of four people working today will need retraining within this decade; over half of the new positions in the future will require at least two years of post secondary education and training; 82% of the new entrants in the work force by 2000 will be women and minorities. The bottom line is - education pays.

 

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