What will be your job in 2005?
The Top 8 Predictions for the Work Force
I talk to all kinds of people, many working in the corporate world, and many more leaving it to stand - or fall - on their own.
Here are some of my predictions for the work force for the end of this year and beginning of the next:
 As high as 90% of white-collar jobs will no longer exist or will be changed to so that they no longer resemble the original role.
Traditional white-collar roles will become more project-based, with more individuals acting as freelancers on a contract basis.
More people will leave corporate careers to become entrepreneurs.
Generation Xers will be more likely to work for themselves rather than trust their career and future success to a company who can and will put them out of work when it suits them, as has been done to many Gen Xer's parents.
People will go through a continual process of doing one thing, returning for education, doing something new, returning to education, and doing something different again, and so on.
Another emerging trend is that of specialization among professionals, with new professions sprouting from the old along with new standards of accepted performance and qualification.
More women will enter the freelance field, finding they can be successful entrepreneurs in a range of fields now open to them thanks to the Internet and advances in telecommunications.
The relatively new career of coaching will continue to become a major entrepreneurial option for many professionals, and in the final quarter of 2002 alone, there will be more and more professionals entering coach training programs.
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Written by Terri Levine, The Guru of Coaching SM, Ph.D., MCC, PCC, MS, CCC-SLP, the Founder ofComprehensive Coaching – The Professional's Coach Training Program, a popular Master Certified personal and business Coach, sought after Public Speaker, and Author of bestsellers "Stop Managing, Start Coaching", "Work Yourself Happy", "Coaching for an Extraordinary Life" and "Create Your Ideal Body". She can be contacted via the web site at: http://www.TerriLevine.com/contact-me.htm or by telephone: 215-699-4949.
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