The senior paradox: why AI is eating junior roles and making experience more valuable
For two years now, the dominant anxiety among experienced professionals has sounded much the same: AI is coming for my job, and my age makes me the easiest target.
For two years now, the dominant anxiety among experienced professionals has sounded much the same: AI is coming for my job, and my age makes me the easiest target.
At the beginning of July, SRF published an assessment that sounds reassuring at first glance. The Federal Statistical Office (BFS) examined the development of the Swiss labour market over the past five years, from the fourth quarter of 2020 toβ¦
The first week of July has a sound all of its own for executives in career transition. It is the sound of out-of-office replies.
When Swiss companies are asked what they think of their employees over 60, the answers are overwhelmingly positive. More than 90 % say they value their experience and expertise. Two thirds praise their sense of responsibility and loyalty. More thanβ¦
There is one sentence that many executives in transition never say out loud. Not to their coach, not to their partner, not within their network. It usually surfaces a few weeks in, once the initial adrenaline of activity has wornβ¦
In our coaching sessions, we often hear the change before we see it. The moment an executive stops describing themselves in the language of what happened to them and starts speaking in the language of what they bring changes theβ¦
It usually happens in the same conversation. The announcement of the separation, the terms, the timeframe. And then, somewhere towards the end, a sentence such as: "We have arranged outplacement support for you. Here are two or three providers youβ¦
Yesterday Switzerland played for its first ice hockey world championship title. At home, in Zurich, before a crowd that had filled the Swiss Life Arena to capacity for every single match of this tournament. After the final lost in Pragueβ¦
There is a story that most executives in transition believe about AI and recruitment. It goes roughly like this: companies use AI to screen applications, algorithms filter candidates out before a human ever sees the CV, and if your documentsβ¦

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