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Career News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the career facet of life. Career-News Blog: Career-Builders News Career Builders: January 11, 2007 by John M. McKee
"You're fired!" This succinct phrase strikes more fear into the heart of the working man--and woman--than any other. Why is it, then, that many well-intentioned and reasonably astute professionals hear these words chronically throughout their careers despite all best efforts? Many professionals often forget that they really have two jobs--the first is to do what they get paid for (and do it better than others). The other is to manage their career paths and do what is required to ensure their upward mobility isn't dependent on others who may or may not be working in their best interest. Even with a small amount of insight, many aspiring professionals can learn how to maintain their good standing in the workplace and actually excel on the job rather than self-destruct. Employee turnover hurts not only those receiving their "walking papers," but employers as well, since this is a costly, though avoidable, expense. Career News Blog: Career Builders News (Continued) Just as in life, when establishing business goals and objectives, one must do so in a long-term context. Attempting to attain a high level of professional success by using the same short-sighted methods that, to date, have delivered only marginal results is simply an exercise in futility. Peter Drucker, the famed management author, guru and teacher said it best: "Lifting a person's vision to higher sights is the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard." Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes--but no plans. Over my 30-plus years in the business world, I've found that virtually every successful individual I encountered--from corporate executives to government officials to people in small businesses--had a "Personal Action Plan" of some sort. The plans weren't always written down, but they were always fairly detailed, had deadlines and included clear actionable goals. In short, these individuals had a business plan for both their careers and their lives. Simply put, if you want something, have a plan to get it. Career News Blog: Career Builders News (Continued) Aspiring business people should commit to making (and sticking to) such a Life Plan. Doing so will help working professionals balance their whole lives and assure they are ready to take on new workplace challenges as they are presented--and execute them well. Far too many people are not as happy as they would like to be, as successful as they think they should be or as wealthy as they'd hoped they would be as an ambitious youth looking forward. Not coincidently, very few of us have a personal life plan. Most people simply get up each day, do whatever it is that they get paid to do, and then do whatever strikes them in the moments of their personal time. In short, they let life happen to them as opposed to proactively managing the activities and, in turn, the outcomes. Career News Blog Comment:
Career builders build their own careers themselves without depending for it on their employers passively. I remember being coaxed by my parents and the principal of my school into making engineering my career only because it had the brightest scope; and I, being an exceptionally bright student, would easily crack the entrance exam of the best engineering institute of my country, which I did and got my name in the list of successful candidates to be admitted in it. But I never had desired to do engineering at all! In fact I had my plans to go for studying physics and do some research in it. But they dissuaded me from that and persuaded me to enter engineering; more so since I had already got selected in the most highly reputed institute of the nation. Career News Blog Comment on Career Builders News (Continued) I succumbed to their pressure, thinking they had a better experience of life than I was having. I was made to believe that life was more the material achievement than it was the call of passion. I did my engineering well, got selected as a scientist in the Defense Ministry of my country after I completed it, and started with my life. But in the very early years of my job, I got disillusioned of the kind of research I was being made to do over there. It simply wasn't my cup of tea! But it was too late for me to change my profession now and listen to the call of my passion. So I continued with what I had been officially trained as. Career News Blog Comment on Career Builders News (Continued) But as the years passed by, I started getting more and more suffocated being in a kind of job for which I, probably, had not been designed as a personality. When it came up to my nose, I resigned from my job. What I did after that, is a totally different story; but today I am happy that I left my job and did what I could never have done, had I kept continuing with it as such. I simply refused to be the spare part of the machine that our entire social system forces us to be through the comforts and the status of the enforced career as a reward to us for serving its means at the cost of our passion in life! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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