CHAPTER 1LEARNING ON THE JOB: SET YOUR PERSONAL LEARNING AGENDA

For many years, a great many companies could promise a new employee lifelong employment and a predictable career path. Today, very few, if any, companies can make that promise. Whether you plan to stay with your current employer or seek opportunities elsewhere, you cannot rely on your company to teach you everything you need to know or to create a career path for you—you must take responsibility for your own learning, your performance on the job, and the shaping of your career.

Even if your company has a formal training department and offers a catalog full of courses for employees, no one knows better than you what you need to learn and how it can be applied to your job to make a ...

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