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Marketable skills drive career security

Marketable skills drive career security

- [Host] I remember, even in college, I thought I could not depend on any employer long term for anything, therefore, I'm going to assemble an unbeatable, indispensable set of skills that make me valuable, and you were inaccurate. And that's one of the main reasons I chose to start a career in strategy consulting, and so, it seems like I'm not the only one that figured that out. This is pretty widespread, that this vague promises of future rewards ain't cutting it for folks. - [Caller] Yeah, I mean, look, so that's a big part of it, and I think that employers, they know on one level that job security is dead, that people have to take responsibility for their own success, but then they can't figure out how to drive performance and retain the best people. A lot of organizations are having a hard time figuring that out. And the reason is because even though everything's changing, they're still operating the same, on the same…

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