The labor market is always changing and many fields are constantly changing. This makes it important to regularly reflect on your work, skills and future. Can you continue to do the same work in the coming years, and do you want to? There are many parties that can help with this. For example, the government often makes subsidies available for development and career coaching. But your own employer can also offer a solution for your future: many collective labor agreements and contracts contain agreements about training or development budgets.

Don't forget that you have rights as an employee, even if your job disappears. For example, you cannot simply be assigned to a completely different position or given a completely new set of tasks. And does your employer want to dismiss you? He is then bound by the rules and conditions that apply: from dismissal application to transition compensation.

Giving direction to your work future can be very difficult. Yet you are the one who will have to deal with it. You know better than anyone what exactly you want, what you excel at and what makes you happy. That doesn't mean you're on your own though. A career coach can help you with answers. Not by telling them, but by asking you exactly the right questions, so that you can determine your goal. And then figure out what steps you need to take to get there.

If it is likely that your work will disappear in the long term, this is possible retraining be a good alternative. It is useful not to wait until you have to take action. Find out in advance which work suits you, your skills and your interests, for example by shadowing someone who does that work for a day. Do you have a direction in mind? Then you can prepare for this in advance: perhaps you can already follow a training course and... retraining to set in motion.