In drifting through the tides of job hunting, is the person who stays most conscious wins the game. Yet this is such a convoluted world full with complexities and on top of everything, there is human factor that attributes to the dynamics of our world today.
Financial industry is even in line with this statement. The things we know for sure today might be disregarded tomorrow, and we are left with two choices. One is to foresee the upcoming trend by historical and present events. Although there is some studies like predictive analytics on their incubation stage, human in nature is not accustomed to visualizing the future. The sheer difficulty of first choice left us to the second and last choice: realize the changes from within and be even more resilient than you are now.
When resilience is being highly regarded yet individual competencies are still the deciding factors on one's success, young talents have to be more conscious on striking a balance between the two polars, namely over-generalist and over-specialist. It is in other words to correctly identify the few qualities to be specialized over time, depends on your personal strengths. The qualities have to be stay sound regardless of business cycles and in the same time easily transferrable. These qualities, combined with resilience could be the driving factors of one's performance under the increasingly unpredictable global world today. The reason being that one could continue to deliver with the alternative qualities if one day his foremost quality is being dismissed as unimportant for the business.
On a side note, there are warnings that a singularity point could emerge when everyone in the corporate world has been as resilient as others and is able to cooperate perfectly between each other, then individualism would be dethroned and replaced by the community-driven paradigm. This is when the social media brings very intricate value to business and this is when the idea of "global village" eventually become a reality.
However as far as the status quo is concerned, this fundamental change is still on early stage, as seen by the relative market share of grass root organizations and global for-profit organizations. The arrival of singularity point could be quite far ahead of where we are now, and it is more pragmatic for us to collectively look for the hard-sought balance between resilience and individual competency.
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