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How is your employer helping your career? An index could answer that
We need an objective measure to show if organisations are creating good career opportunities for their staff.
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For both employers and employees, the changing employment and career landscape presents challenges and opportunities.
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Randolph Tan, Sheryl Chua and Kang Soon-Hock
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How would you envision your career journey? For some, it may mean rising through the same organisation. For others, it could involve moving across firms and industries to gain new skills, broaden networks and explore different pathways.
This is the essence of career mobility. It is not just hierarchical advancement but involves leveraging available opportunities to allow employees to develop new skills while broadening their knowledge and professional connections. The workplace that emerged from Covid-19 is very different from the one that entered it. New technologies such as artificial intelligence are reshaping industries, while employees are more conscious of opportunities for development, flexibility and meaningful progression.
