Classical approach of career guidance is at stake as we are passing through job unstructuring due to globalization. We are moving from local to domestic, domestic to international and international to transnational, therefore each job responsibility becomes more unpredictable. Since labor market or career market is unpredictable, one should redefine the concept of career.
Career is not mere a job for which individual intends to train him or herself. Now career is nothing but role or constellation of roles having some marketing value.
It is a time to think how to export career, how to reconfigure existing skills, how to engineer a new career.
Career is just like Ganges river having many branches with different names. Like Ganges career is a flow of information, capital, labor, product and services. Due to its value, people come to the Ganges. Like that due to its high marketing value, people come to the different phases of career.
The above is some of the excerpts of my today's talk in the Rotary club, North Calcutta.
