Young people cannot “afford the luxury” to specialize at work: “Specialization promised stability, but it also attached me to a single way. I’m happy to have come out of it.”
It is normal to hear these comments: “Ui, you are 25 years in the same company? This was in other times. Nowadays there are no cases like yours. stability it is gone. ”
And they are words that arise in a tone of criticism, in a sorry tone. With the tone of “in the old days it was, we wanted stability now and we do not have.”
An old Goldman Sachs analyst gives the motto: after all, many young people Generation Z workers – 30 years or less – do not have stability in employment and do not want it.
And more: It is better not to have.
The example presented in remember that it would be in a “dream job” when being an analyst at Goldman Sachs, with all the benefits the company brings.
But over time, Scott Strrett continues, he began to realize that his long -term skills development would be increasingly specialized. “What limar mine options for the future ”.
That is: specialization promises stability, but also holds the person to a single way.
“And looking back, I’m happy to have left of that path ”.
Until 2030…
In the technology sector, this is quite visible: thousands or millions of employees experts on a subject, on a task; When thousands of them are fired (as it is happening this year in the US), these tasks are not easily transferable to new sectors or functions.
In other words: They don’t know how to do anything else.
This at a time when, according to the world economic forum, over the next five years, 70% of the skills used in most jobs will change. Who is indispensable now, will cease to be – can even be obsolete.
Who is more generalist, multi-tarefas, normally exceeds os expert in complex and unpredictable environments. They connect sectors, adapt to new contexts, transfer skills from one area to another.
In this context, the same analysis leaves the example of someone who graduated in English, was teachers; Then he moved to the programming and was high in Nike technology.
But, over time, What I knew of programming became less and less relevant. What really mattered: ability to read the environment, manage various personalities, and find creative solutions to complex problems.
That is, none of this had been learned in the programming.
Advantage of generation Z
The professional panorama is clearly uncertain – but it is also more well -equipped to adapt than any previous generation.
Older generations have not grown to learn to program or other skills through YouTube tutorials.
Young people grew up with a access unprecedented information, Global knowledge, tools and communities. They appear a competence, or a certain task on the Internet; often free of charge. The months of formal formation are no longer a reality for many.
It is a matter of deliberate cultivation of generalist skills, of volatility, to create opportunities.
And it’s a matter of wanting.
