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POPSJob Survival Skills - Old Model no longer works
How bad is it for job seekers? It’s only bad if you are operating from the old model. The old model is gone forever... companies will be flatter, smaller, with fewer people doing more. Companies will stick to core competencies and outsource the rest. Management roles will be limited, hierarchy will be gone and instead there will be networks of people with very specific specialties (mostly consultants) doing the work on a linear team. It’s become a very Darwinian workplace. You must DIFFERENTIATE yourself, ADAPT to the environment, be SPEEDY to the food source, and use your INSTINCT to tell you what is happening around you. OK, then how good is it for job seekers? It’s tough out there but there are jobs... you need to package yourself as a portfolio of specific and transferable skills, have a plan, know the one thing you are best at, cross-train, raise your profile, get out there... don’t assume it’s all bad, keep learning (change leadership, cross generational/gender/cultural/
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POPSGAO: Faulty defense accounting, 3rd year in a row Little accountability, transparency; cites large contractor billings in "miscellaneous" category; we really don't know how our money is being spent, or if contractors are taking us to the cleaners in the GWOT (global war on terror)