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Resilience, not just reskilling, is critical in an age of job disruptions
How to turn adversity into advantage and see opportunity in loss is a challenge that individuals – and society – must give more thought to.
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Where skills are concerned, the seeds of resilience could be found in the very forces that are contributing to disruption, says the writer.
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As more layoffs are announced at firms such as Meta and Intel, it is impossible to avoid thinking of the disruption that must be taking place in hundreds of thousands of middle-class lives. Along with that, there is the pressing question of how best to manage such setbacks in one’s working life.
With each passing week, it is getting clear that the forces shaking up the employment sector are gaining velocity.
