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Top reasons why we change jobs 1. Downsizing or restructuring (54%)
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Top reasons why we change jobs 1. Downsizing or restructuring (54%) 2. Sought new challenges or opportunities (30%)3. Due to ineffective leadership (25%)4. Poor relationship with manager (22%)5. To improve work/life balance (21%)6. Contributions were not valued (21%)7. Better compensation and benefits (18%)8. Better alignment of personal and organizational values (17%)9. Personal strengths and capabilities weren’t a good fit (16%)10. Company was financially unstable (13%)11. Company or job relocated (12%)
What are the motivating factors causing me to change careers? Is there room for growth in my target industry? Are you feeling burnt out in your job? Worried about being downsized? Lost interest in your career? Are you ready for a change?
Vocabulary Follow-Up Fill in all the gaps using the new vocabulary • Barbara: Did you hear Lars lost his job? Tim: Really? He has been working for that advertising agency for almost five years. He was such a_____________ employee - I can't believe he was fired! Barbara: He wasn't fired, he _____________. Terra Advertising ___________ by some Internet marketing firm from the East Coast. Tim: That's terrible! Why didn't the new company keep him? I'm sure they could use someone with his skills. Barbara: Lars said the new company needs to . Tim: Why? Barbara: They need to reduce the number of employees they have if they want to remain . Tim: Why did they Lars? He's great at what he does. Barbara: They hired a specialist to come in and help the company. Lars is creative and very respected in the advertising industry, but his skills have become . He can't use a computer and he doesn't know anything about the Internet. He is no help to an Internet marketing firm. Tim: He needs to go back to school and . The career center downtown offers free classes to people who need to their skills and training. Barbara: You should suggest that to him. • competitive dedicated get rid of • is downsizing outdated retrain • streamlined update was bought out • was laid off