Workers moving to smaller, midsized companies may find that they must accept reduced salaries, benefits, and job security, which may require a readjustment of financial goals and spending habits. Even if a new job provides the same salary, the benefits may be less than in the previously held job. Educators can facilitate transitions by providing students work-related experience through internships, work experience programs, mentoring, and so forth. Not all efforts to step up the career ladder require movement to a new organization. Sometimes career advancement can be achieved by developing new skills and a willingness to assume new responsibilities.
Lateral shifts offer another way to achieve career mobility without leaving the organization.
Employees can often broaden their knowledge and skills by shifting to a part of the organization that is targeted for expansion or restructuring with new technology. Downward shifts may also make it possible for individuals to incorporate other priorities more regularly into their daily lives, such as further education, health needs, and family. Alternative employment patterns offer another option for workers in or anticipating transition because they are dissatisfied with their current full-time status. Flextime, another employment option, is also increasing in acceptance. Job sharing and telecommuting, although still rather new, have the potential to become more widespread in future.