In the current turbulent global political climate, a job or a career for life for those just starting out in the workplace is no longer guaranteed — or even desirable. Add in the climate crisis and wider anxiety about the future, and the feeling of worry and lack of control could potentially become overwhelming.
How can students, new graduates and those who advise and recruit them find a meaningful way to plan for the decades ahead?
The traditional versions of sage and sometimes staid advice — go into the professions, train for something, get a job with a good pension and so on — that was given to older Boomers, Generation X and even Millennials now seems quaint and often redundant for Generation Z (born 1995-2010).