As discussed earlier, decisions carrying potential long-term ramifications become strategic by their very nature. More than ever, due to many challenges in the professional marketplace over the last several decades, serious-minded career formulation entails collecting and assimilating relevant information before pulling the trigger on any long-term career endeavor. As an illustration, occupations once gained strictly through vocational venues, now find their divisions from traditional higher education continuing to blur due to technological transformations and its application for virtually all professions. Efforts resembling the Registered Apprenticeship College Consortium, the collaborative apprenticeship program by Huntington Ingalls Industries
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Before long, the television picture tube which had survived for over seventy years as a commercial broadcast mainstay virtually disappeared overnight. Imagine a professional engineer, having spent years of diligent preparation, having their career tied to the picture tube industry! Now imagine thousands or tens of thousands in a similar predicament. While such substantive changes can attest to dramatic benefits for a consumer, the effect on people’s lives and their ability to earn a wage in particular economies could be equally dramatic and devastating. Thus the importance of career research and the trends in those industries before any decisions are consummated.
However, not all paradigm shifts associate with technological transformation. Consider the profound historical contributions of the civilized society with the ratification of United States’ Constitution and even the Magna Carta centuries earlier. Such changes tend to have largely unpredictable and far-reaching effects with the potential of transforming major portions or the totality of a
Before long, the television picture tube which had survived for over seventy years as a commercial broadcast mainstay virtually disappeared overnight. Imagine a professional engineer, having spent years of diligent preparation, having their career tied to the picture tube industry! Now imagine thousands or tens of thousands in a similar predicament. While such substantive changes can attest to dramatic benefits for a consumer, the effect on people’s lives and their ability to earn a wage in particular economies could be equally dramatic and devastating. Thus the importance of career research and the trends in those industries before any decisions are consummated.
However, not all paradigm shifts associate with technological transformation. Consider the profound historical contributions of the civilized society with the ratification of United States’ Constitution and even the Magna Carta centuries earlier. Such changes tend to have largely unpredictable and far-reaching effects with the potential of transforming major portions or the totality of a