The concept of a linear, thirty-year career followed by static retirement is disappearing - a reality Makers CEO Claudia Harris explores in the latest episode of the Financial Times workplace series Working It.
Host Isabel Berwick investigates the realities of longer working lives, asking why recruitment systems continue to favour youth when experienced professionals offer vital adaptability and skills.
Featured in the episode, alongside experts such as Lynda Gratton and Alastair Campbell, Claudia highlights the importance of hiring career switchers. With artificial intelligence reshaping every role across the economy, every working adult is now effectively a career switcher.
Drawing on fifteen years of helping professionals navigate career transitions, Claudia explains that thriving in this new environment requires a fundamental identity shift: moving from 'Expert' to 'Learner' and actively building Learning Quotient (LQ).
Our clients describe Makers alumni as curious problem solvers. We think that LQ is the most important form of intelligence in the modern age.
When organisations pair automated efficiency with people who know how to learn, experienced talent becomes a company's greatest strategic advantage.
We build the learners. They build your business. Whether hiring adaptable career switchers or reskilling your current teams, build your engineering capability with Makers.