Smart Career Management Is The Key To Get Ahead In Your Career

In today’s world of growing world-wide competition, technological displacement, and market trends, good career management is necessary. You must take charge of your career as if you are the quarterback of the game setting up the play for the final touchdown. In order to stay on top in your field, you can’t afford to relax after you get a job and take it for granted that you will keep it forever or that it won’t change. Most people would not want that anyways. It would be dull and boring and eventually lose its appeal.

So, how do you work in an unstable work area while remaining positive and in control? You don’t want to get so paranoid that every little rumor from the corporate mill has you scared of a layoff. You want to be prepared in the event of a layoff, but you also want to be sure that you are a valuable addition to your company. Don’t assume you are irreplaceable, but don’t assume the company is going under either.

In the workplace, people have become easily replaceable. Consider yourself as a product that you are selling to your company, each and every day. If the product you are selling is beneficial to your company, it will want to keep buying your brand. If, however, your product isn’t well-managed, becomes easily replaced for less money, or becomes too much trouble, then the company will quit buying the product.

One of the most necessary factors of a company is to make money. If the commodity they hold, you, is not valuable to them when it comes to profit, then they may decide in tough times to lay you off and find some other way to fill your position. That’s the reality of business.

The previous view was what started much of the stampede towards outsourcing in the last few years. Many positions were not only easily replaceable for less in other countries, but the business owners doing the replacing saw no additional benefit to keeping an American employee versus hiring someone in a foreign. One of the greatest areas that this trend affected was the outsourcing of technical support and customer service call centers.

Now, we are beginning to understand the problem with the view of a human being as just a cog in a big machine. The outcome is that workers leave those positions and go in search of jobs elsewhere in another sector of industry. In the mean time, foreigners may not understand the cultural environment of the buyers they are dealing with in the United States. The result is that buyers get frustrated with their purchasing experience and sometimes take their business elsewhere.

Now, we have a trend called insourcing, where Americans are being hired by buisnesses in India to do call centers so that the buyers negotiate with someone who is culturally similar and knows how to speak their language. In this way, many workers have managed to make themselves a valuable asset to their company as human beings again. This is why you should never underestimate the power of how your cultural influence and soft skills can help you in career management.

Arthur Manford Chambers III is a career planner and writer. Find out more about up to date tips in career management on the author's website and also get internet career guides, and a career training "special report". Plus you can download the author's newest career handbook, a complete guide to career management. www.career-recruitment.com

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