Modern Mentor Make your time at work work for you
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Sep 9, 2025 Explore the evolving relationship between employers and employees in today's transient work environment. Discover four actionable strategies to transform current responsibilities into stepping stones for personal and career growth. Learn how to leverage your job for networking and leadership opportunities, and enhance your personal brand. Master the art of making every workday a valuable investment in your future.
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Generational Career Contrast
- Rachel Cooke describes seven parental figures who all retired from the same job they started at.
- She contrasts that past norm of lifelong employment with today's reality of frequent layoffs and reorgs.
The Psychological Contract Shift
- The psychological contract of mutual lifetime loyalty between employers and employees has eroded.
- Rachel Cooke notes companies and workers no longer expect lifelong careers in the same place.
Build Skills Through Current Work
- Identify a skill you want and deliberately practice it within your current job using small, scrappy learning resources.
- Blend short learning bites with on-the-job experiments so work becomes a lab for capability building.