Three Types of Professional Identity
All three types are necessary for a vibrant workforce and high performing team.
One-in-four jobs show signs of hybridization,
and one-in-eight positions are highly hybridized,
encompassing more than 250 occupations.
Hybrid jobs are growing nearly twice as fast as traditional jobs.
-Burning Glass Report, 2019
Hybridity is being greater than the SUM of your professional identities.
If you’re both an expert and a generalist…then who are you really?
“The average adult worker holds more than 10 jobs in a lifetime..and reinvents their career three to four times”
- John Hagel, Wharton, 2010
Careers over a lifetime.
Who are you in the intersections of your primary professional identities?
A hybrid professional integrates identities together.
Imagine an artist/scientist/engineer. Are they an expert, generalist, or a hybrid?
Hybrid professional identity defies traditional job titles because they work at the intersections of disparate identities.
Hybrids integrate disparate work identities together to create an entirely new identity. This becomes their truest professional identity.
The trick is figuring out how to articulate and communicate your hybridity so the rest of the world sees who you are and can understand your unique value at work.
Giving yourself permission to interconnect work identities is a game changer.
Hybridity is your differentiator in the workforce.