It seems the new axiom of career management is: the only constant is change. The Department of Labor reports that the average person will make 5-7 career changes during their working life. Millennials (born 1977-1997) are expected to experience even more change. Ninety-one percent of Millennials expect to stay in a job for less than three years, and consider career and job changes to be one-in-the-same, according to a Future Workplace study.

Employers and candidates alike are told that organizational culture plays an important role in job success. While many people use the term culture, it is not always clear what they mean. In my mind, organizational culture is the collective way employees do things. It involves a learned set of behaviors that guide perceptions, understanding of events, and what is important. Every organization has a culture, even those that can’t define it. Culture is something you experience and live.

Everywhere you look someone is writing or talking about their Big Data solution or strategy.  The advisors at Gartner define big data as:  high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. In other words, it is data that is so large and/or so complex that you can’t manage it using traditional data processing applications.