These are challenging and confusing times for graduates trying to find meaningful employment in today’s workplace and their parents. The same goes for experienced people who are losing what they thought were steady jobs and trying to find new jobs in a workplace they don’t recognize. For those who still have steady jobs and all the traditional benefits that are included with them, today’s workplace looks and feels like it did to previous generations. They may be nervous as they look at what is going on around them, but for now, they feel secure. They know that their world is shrinking and that the nontraditional job world is expanding. Trying to make sense of what is going on is very challenging, even for those who have been studying the workplace for years.

The intent of this book is to help people to begin to understand what is going on in the workplace and to give them the tools and strategies they need to succeed in it.