Job Search Skills

Experts say that people today, on average, change jobs once every four years and change careers an average of three times during their working life. We no longer live in a world where you can stay in the same job for your entire career, retire and collect your gold watch. Workers today are constantly faced with corporate restructuring and layoffs, forcing them to face constant change and upheaval.

Companies today are in business to make money and their only loyalty is to the bottom line. When their bottom line suffers, they layoff employees and this can happen to anyone at any time. Martin Yate in his book Knock em Dead states that “job change is an integral part of modern life that comes around about every four years, making change and job search a constant factor for everyone.”