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    The Workforce of The Future

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    Young people entering the workforce now have different attitudes than previous generations: - They are more adaptable to rapid workplace changes and see their careers as nonlinear paths across multiple companies rather than straight lines within one company. - They are more entrepreneurial and willing to take risks, such as starting their own companies straight out of school or choosing smaller startups over prestigious large companies for more responsibility. - They value skills and abilities over job titles or tenure at a company, seeing education more as a means to an end than as an end in itself.

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    Young people entering the workforce now have different attitudes than previous generations: - They are more adaptable to rapid workplace changes and see their careers as nonlinear paths across multiple companies rather than straight lines within one company. - They are more entrepreneurial and willing to take risks, such as starting their own companies straight out of school or choosing smaller startups over prestigious large companies for more responsibility. - They value skills and abilities over job titles or tenure at a company, seeing education more as a means to an end than as an end in itself.

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    Young people entering the workforce now have different attitudes than previous generations: - They are more adaptable to rapid workplace changes and see their careers as nonlinear paths across multiple companies rather than straight lines within one company. - They are more entrepreneurial and willing to take risks, such as starting their own companies straight out of school or choosing smaller startups over prestigious large companies for more responsibility. - They value skills and abilities over job titles or tenure at a company, seeing education more as a means to an end than as an end in itself.

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    THE WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE

    Read the five extracts (A-E) from an article about how young people entering the
    workforce now, or in the next few years, are different from older generations.
    Decide which paragraph each of the statements refers to.
    ‘Young people joining the workforce now …...’
    1 are likely to take a short-term view of work.
    2 are more entrepreneurial.
    3 are not so worried about job security.
    4 find it easy to fund their own business ventures.
    5 identify with their own abilities rather than their employment situation.
    6 may continue their formal education when they are older.
    7 may have little time for people who avoid working with the new technologies.
    8 take advantage of work opportunities where they arise.
    A
    Young adults are by nature well-suited for the unpredictable workplace of the
    future. They have less baggage and can therefore afford to take risks. People
    today get married later, and women have children three years later in life than
    their mothers did. Each generation is born into an era of more rapid change than
    their parents, making them ever better adapted for the frenetic world they are
    about to enter.
    B
    One of the most pervasive business trends of the past decade has been the rise of
    the 'free agent', caused both by the breakdown of the social contract between
    companies and employees, and by the growing share in the workforce of
    knowledge workers with portable skills. They define themselves by their skills,
    not the firm they work for. 'The overwhelming majority of graduates see their
    career at graduation not as a straight line of advancement in one company but as
    a zigzag path from company to company, job to job, skill to skill: writes author
    Meredith Bagby.
    C
    With a booming economy, capital for the taking and unprecedented
    technological opportunity, it is no surprise that more young people have been
    striking out on their own. Rebecca Smith explains that when she arrived in New
    York last year she had to choose between a job with a prestigious advertising
    firm and one with a tiny dotcom start-up. She chose the start-up, even though it
    paid $10,000 a year less. 'It was a choice between being someone's assistant or
    getting real responsibility and challenges,' she says. 'I think that a lot of people in
    my generation are going to smaller companies that allow them to grow much
    faster.’
    D
    Where years of education, training and experience were once necessary to
    succeed, now they are increasingly seen as irrelevant, even a liability. This trend
    is already showing up in teenagers with self-taught technical skills. They know
    that they will never again be as quick-learning and full of energy as they are
    now. These young programmers are starting to question the point of university.
    In a technology industry changing so rapidly, goes the thinking, skills quickly
    become obsolete, and in this market four years of studying history - or even
    computer science at an academic pace - is just four years wasted. ‘You can
    always go back to college, but you can’t regain your youth,' says one.
    E
    According to Bruce Tulgan: 'All they've known is a technology-based
    economy that moves quickly, downsizes constantly and places a premium
    on change.' The daily USA Today makes a Similar point: 'Raised on a diet of
    MTV and video games. young managers are quick to roam from job to job,
    hungry for quick results, willing to do things differently and intolerant of
    technophobes.' Margaret Reagan, a consultant, predicts that barely one-
    third of young people will take steady staff jobs with companies. Instead,
    most will freelance, work under contract or part-time.

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