A job for life is a thing of the past.
A new study has found that two-thirds of people with less than five years of work experience expect their job will not exist, or will fundamentally change, in the next 15 years.
Just over half of these early-career Australians already see their qualifications as not being "very much" relevant to their work.
"Each of us needs to recognise that our skill set, if un-nurtured, will quickly become obsolete," Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand boss Lee White said promoting the group's Future of Work report released on Tuesday.
Of those employees who will pursue a new job in the next 10 years, three in five are looking to change to a different industry, a different role, or both.
The report says perceptions surrounding careers are evolving rapidly as the norm shifts in a more flexible, knowledge-based economy.
"The combination of greater global economic integration and technological advancements have led to the rise of the virtual global worker, which means that we are increasingly competing on a global scale," it says.
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