ABSTRACT
Career and security thus, in the brave new world arising after jobs-for-life, operate at cross-purposes. Notice that Andrews writes of the imperative to “regularly upgrade” skills, an
upgrading which even when undertaken is no guarantee of job security (as workplace “guarantees” have gone the way of “lifetime careers”). Whilst a career used to denote the longterm, it is now increasingly about the recombination of skills to move between job functions, departments or industries in the search for some provisional, always short-lived, job security. Hence, the short-term, episodic and fast-paced measures advanced by Coach D in his six-step programme for twenty-first century career reinvention:
1. Participate in trainings designed to identify and mobilize your unique gifts, talents and abilities.
