The Next Big Thing

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Today, I was getting ready to talk to a group of MBA candidates at SMU and was looking over the kinds of questions they are planning to ask me about the job market and what to expect and thought I'd do some digging for what else is being said in this space.

I have blogged about changes in the use of personnel and the shifting workforce:
What if we were to apply service oriented concepts to people
Further thoughts on the future of employment

There was an analysis done recently showing that if you were born after 1985, you are significantly more likely to create your own business than join in a traditional corporate, employee relationship. With venture funding up (based on an article in Red Herring) it looks like there are $$ out there to help get things started.

When you add in the possibility of grid computing becoming commercially feasible in the near future, it should make for a much more flexible environment than most people feel comfortable with, in the IT space.

It is most likely a case of when, not if, so we'll need to get ready for an interesting ride.

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'The Herman Trend Alert, which has been warning for months of a pending labor shortage, says that young Millennials (those born after 1985) are increasingly more likely to start their own businesses than seek more traditional employment. The result: those individuals who are most desirable as employees (ambitious, curious, creative, hard-working) are less available to hiring managers.

Herman notes the irony in that many companies, unable to hire the individuals they want and need, will ultimately outsource work to companies run by these young entrepreneurs.'

FutureWire - 23/08/05

futurewire.blogspot.com/.../young-entrepreneurs-strike-out-on.html