How to experiment in harnessing employment uncertainty

Millennials Employment Guide 101

The path from probable to new normal seems like a frequent occurrence in employment opportunities. Longer contract positions and permanent jobs are slowly being replaced with what we can call the panic period.

Beth Comstock_Vice Chair at GE tells of the GE acronym; VUCAA which stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous & Anxiety traits we exhibit and experience in face of uncertainty.

We can't make uncertainty go away, it's how we react to it. My path towards my contract expiration is planned out - maybe this can help your career and life balance in uncertainty. 

1. Make more bets

Dreaming in scale. Instead of narrowing down to one organization, one role, one skill & expertise, growing the idea of how marketable you are and filtering against a goal at the end of numerous offers may actually breed in better and more opportunities.

• Notification button on LinkedIn
• Notifications from glassdoor

2. Shorter operating windows

In a VUCAA world if you take long to be impactful, to resiliently and constantly stay relevant you will become lost in the process. Plan for an impact that occurs over short periods of time and recurs over and over until it sticks.

However, on personal goals, you require grit to have the persistence to handle long periods. Be creative give your resume a contract duration use it to apply into 5 roles and revamp then create another have fun with it.

3. Less assumption, more hypothesis

Occam's razor "law of parsimony". The razor's statement that "other things being equal, simpler explanations are generally better than more complex ones" is amenable to empirical testing. Another interpretation of the razor's statement would be that "simpler hypotheses (not conclusions, i.e. explanations) are generally better than the complex ones".

a. the prisoners model:

b. the status model: how to recognize a winner/ a winning hypothesis.

Please review: The decision book[ fifty models of strategic thinking]