Career Fluency

"Career-fluency" is the new buzzword... specifically, the lack of it for most young people. It is not, as I first thought, about the fluency of the progress of one's career, but about your fluency in career networking and etiquette.

Things like knowing how to write a CV, knowing how and when to send a thank you letter to someone who's given you advice, knowing how to handle yourself in a meeting and what to say when asked about yourself is what is taught at a 'career fluency' group. 

These skills come naturally to children and young people in families where the networks exist, but are a major labour market barrier (more so than anything else perhaps) to those who don't and who are the pioneers of labour mobility.

It is the next generation of "careers advice" which I think will create more confident young people in an unsteady job market in which every gesture counts.