Stop looking for one job - Diane Mulcahy (Harvard Business Review)

#Employment #GigEconomy #Economy

  I'd read an #HBR article a while ago talking about how the way our parents or grandparents "did their work" does not work in today's industry's atmosphere. Scrambling to do one regular 9-5 just doesn't work anymore. 

Rate of new jobs shrinks more and more each year.

Pumping up yourself for an office of that company you're fancying has become oblique and inefficient for businesses.

  

  Automation and machinery are taking over many jobs that we're studying hard for during our time in the university. We have robots that write long and complex novels nowadays! Law firms now also use robots, less prone to human bug and deceptiveness, and are turning their backs on the real lawyers.

  

  Also, human workers are become more and more of a bane to the CEOs/managers who are seeking all various means to slash the paycheck. 

  The article claims that companies are more attracted or even need part-time workers who will require less obligation for payment and cover of benefits from the company.

  As I have re-check this article while writing this, it is actually a critique on how most MBA schools prepare students for one single job and only send students to work at one place.

   In the emergence of 'gig economy', the writer proposes that the schools should more focus on diversifying the student's experiences on CV by providing assistance on freelancing jobs and contract work for their students. Enjoy the abundance of tasks rather than clinging to one single job to blow back the woe of job insecurity today.

  "Stop looking for a job" is, she announced to her students, the way to prepare for their future careers.

(HBR.org, Diane Mulcahy, "Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig  Economy")