Career planning advice to choose a job, map promotions, and predict a 10-year destination is outdated when the future is uncertain. Sheryl Sandberg urged graduates not to script their careers and said a 10-year plan is unnecessary. She described entering the workforce during major technological disruption, when the internet was just emerging. After leaving the Treasury Department, she struggled to find a job and feared the offer might not last. She joined Google early, helped grow its sales team dramatically, and later became a key leader at Meta. She emphasized that the plan was not a life raft and that AI-driven change can eliminate or transform roles.
"“Don't script your career when the future is uncertain,” the former chief operating officer of Meta just told graduates at Brandeis University. “You don't need a 10-year plan. If I had one, I would have missed the internet.”"
"“There were days-and I'm not being dramatic-when I thought I would never find one,” she added. “When I finally got an offer, I worried that the company might not even survive.” That company was called Google."
"“I wish someone had told me during those many months of fear, the plan was never the life raft,” she said. “The point to Gen Zers is this: In an AI-disrupted job market where the roles today's graduates are chasing may look completely different (or disappear altogether) within”"
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