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How to hit peak career

Friday 20 November 2015

News by Professional Manager Magazine

There's an intensive phase of every manager's career during which you should aim to maximise your personal and earnings potential. Fortunately, there's a tried-and-tested way to make sure you do.

Until the early 1980s, there was an unspoken agreement between employer and employee that, as long as you kept your nose clean, you'd have a job for life and a decent final salary pension at the end of it, your reward for years of service.

That comfortable era came to a violent end in 1984. The miners' strike called time on the UK coal industry (as well as many mining communities), and shattered the old contract. "The old societal bargains have skipped from memory," says Professor Huw Morris, director of skills, higher education and lifelong learning in the Welsh government

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