4 Tips for a Healthy Career Development Outlook

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

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In the past, I’ve used my career articles around the change of the year to write about making career resolutions or conducting a review of what has been achieved. That doesn’t have to happen only when the calendar changes of course, but that has always seemed like a natural time to do it—especially as the media is always full of New Year’s resolutions to provide added incentives.

Those concepts still apply as we start 2021, but I want to offer a word of caution: There are still a lot of unknowns ahead of us that are going to force us to be flexible.

The medical experts tell us that it’s going to be well into 2021 before a COVID vaccine will be available in large enough quantities that sufficient people will have it so that things can maybe return to some semblance of what normalcy was. That’s not universally going to be how things were in early 2020 before all this started though—some changes are inevitably going to be permanent.

That’s going to include everything from how customers interact with businesses (retail is an obvious example, with things like curbside pick-up here to stay) to how employees work (remote working is going to be a far more common model for many industries).

Beyond the health aspects, some industries are going to take longer to recover than others. And there will be inconsistencies in that …

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