Comments on: The coming issues in finding and retaining talent http://pebblecreekpartners.com/blog/2009/07/the-coming-issues-in-finding-and-retaining-talent/ www.pebblecreekpartners.com Fri, 27 May 2011 12:59:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Small business and "the rebound" | Pebble Creek Partners http://pebblecreekpartners.com/blog/2009/07/the-coming-issues-in-finding-and-retaining-talent/comment-page-1/#comment-551 Small business and "the rebound" | Pebble Creek Partners Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:01:23 +0000 http://pebblecreekpartners.com/blog/?p=773#comment-551 [...] that have cut staff to the bone and now need to get ready for the rebound.  As I talked about in a prior post, those remaining employees are weary and getting them to work harder as the business picks up [...] [...] that have cut staff to the bone and now need to get ready for the rebound.  As I talked about in a prior post, those remaining employees are weary and getting them to work harder as the business picks up [...]

]]> By: Jim Rea http://pebblecreekpartners.com/blog/2009/07/the-coming-issues-in-finding-and-retaining-talent/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Jim Rea Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:25:37 +0000 http://pebblecreekpartners.com/blog/?p=773#comment-200 Good start to a big topic, Dave. I believe that everything about careers is undergoing permanent change. We are now personally responsible for our own retirement, with the death of pension plans, disappearing employer matches and likely higher taxes over time devaluing the idea of a 401k, and inevitable ratcheting up of the Social Security age. An article in our paper today said that people need to start paying for their own work-related training since employers aren't paying for it. How many employers pay for advanced degrees anymore? We'll see where health care goes, but I suspect it eventually won't be provided by employers regardless of whether the government runs it or not. Titles will mean less. At an executive breakfast recently one fellow asked about the impact of maybe accepting a job with a lower job title than he previously had. I submit that in a few years titles won't even be on resumes. What you did will be far more important than what you were. Titles will become tools to structure organizations only, and be of little use in selling your services to your next employer. According to the YouTube video "Did You Know", and I checked this one with the BoLS, today's Learner will have 10-14 jobs by age 38. 1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer less than a year. Churn will accellerate as soon as there are choices. "What I want, with people that I like, in a place I want to live" will be drivers behind career choices indeed. Good start to a big topic, Dave. I believe that everything about careers is undergoing permanent change. We are now personally responsible for our own retirement, with the death of pension plans, disappearing employer matches and likely higher taxes over time devaluing the idea of a 401k, and inevitable ratcheting up of the Social Security age. An article in our paper today said that people need to start paying for their own work-related training since employers aren’t paying for it. How many employers pay for advanced degrees anymore? We’ll see where health care goes, but I suspect it eventually won’t be provided by employers regardless of whether the government runs it or not.

Titles will mean less. At an executive breakfast recently one fellow asked about the impact of maybe accepting a job with a lower job title than he previously had. I submit that in a few years titles won’t even be on resumes. What you did will be far more important than what you were. Titles will become tools to structure organizations only, and be of little use in selling your services to your next employer.

According to the YouTube video “Did You Know”, and I checked this one with the BoLS, today’s Learner will have 10-14 jobs by age 38. 1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer less than a year. Churn will accellerate as soon as there are choices.

“What I want, with people that I like, in a place I want to live” will be drivers behind career choices indeed.

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