Professional transitions – huffingtonpost.com

In today’s professional world where career loyalty is an endangered professional species, frequent career transitions have become the norm. Whereas professionals used to remain in the same company for their entire careers, nowadays, millenials abhor career stagnation, opting instead for transitional paths and redirected steps to get to the top.
Today, you can no longer judge someone’s resume by the longevity of their tenures but rather by the breadth and width of their experiences. And that experience may not only span throughout many companies, but even through numerous fields and disciplines…
As thriving professionals and corporate sisters, how are we to handle the new norm? How do we manage both those transitions we willingly and strategicall choose, as well as those that are somewhat imposed to us?
I once watched a great contorsionist during a Cirque du Soleil show, and remember being amazed at the unbreakable flexibility of their limbs. He could bend whichever way without any sign of pain or over-extension whatsoever, while still displaying the most incredible grace under pressure. Each movement was synchronized with the next in a gracious continuum that looked like it was always a single act. Yet when you looked closely, you could decompose each micro movement into the overwhelming sum of its components.
And so are professional transitions. As seemingly individual as they may appear, the secret to building success out of the modern and fragmented careers of our times, is to graciously combine all our professional transitions into a seamless career continuum. To instill a flexible, adaptive approach to non-conventional career paths. To favor successful professional transitions, as  unconventional as they may be, rather than opting to stay put in unproductive and un-gratifying professional settings.

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