Clashpoint: Career Goals

How do the generations differ on how they perceive career goals?  You might be able to answer this question based on your experiences, but here is what is described in When Generations Collide:

• Traditionalists:  Build a legacy
• Baby Boomers:  Build a stellar career
• Gen X:  Build a portable career
• Millennials:  Build parallel careers

Think about the conversations in career development, coaching, performance appraisals.  Think of people you know in each of these categories.  How should we change what we say or do so that we are speaking the same language?  It is easy to say that people want different things, but workplaces and people within them can't ignore how these perspectives clash. 

Comments

[Jo Parfitt]

Hi Jann, I have a google alert set to the words 'portable career' and it comes up so rarely that I was thrilled to find your post. I am an expat wife of 20 years who has devoted her time to creating my own best life and helping others to do the same. I wrote a book called A Career in Your Suitcase to help do just that. I'm a baby boomer, not a gen Xer, and sure need my portable career. I'm a writer and fortunately that is a fabulous portable career.