Careful Career Management Is The Best Way To Get Ahead In Your Career

By: Arthur Manford Chambers III

In this world of escalating global competition, technological advancement, and market forces, good career management is important. You must take control of your career as if you are the star player 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 just sit back after you get a job and assume you will always have it or that it won’t change. Most employees would not be happy with that anyways. It would be difficult and eventually lose its appeal.

So, how do you work in a shaky work environment while remaining positive and in control? You don’t want to worry yourself that every little rumor from the corporate mill has you wondering if you are next in line for a layoff. You want to be prepared in case of a layoff, but you also want to be positive that you are a needed part to your company. Don’t assume you will never be laid off, but don’t assume the company is going under either.

In the workplace, employees have become easily replaceable. Think of yourself as something that you are promoting to your company, each and every day. If the product you are selling is a benefit to your company, it will keep buying your brand. If, however, your product isn’t maintained, can be easily replaced, or becomes difficult, then the company will quit buying the product.

One of the most important factors of a company is to make money. If the commodity they hold, you, is not valuable in terms of profit, then they may decide in tough times to lay you off and look for some other way to meet your function. That’s the cold, hard, view of business.

The previous view was what began much of the rush towards outsourcing in previous years. Many positions were not only easily replaced for less in other countries, but the business owners making the switch saw no additional benefit to keeping an American employed versus hiring someone in another country. One of the greatest areas that this trend impacted was the outsourcing of technical support and customer service call centers.

Now, we are starting to realize the problem with the idea of a human being as just a cog in a big machine. The outcome is that employees leave those positions and look for employment elsewhere in another area of industry. In the mean time, the people in another country may not understand the cultural environment of the buyers they are dealing with in the United States. What results is customers get frustrated with their purchasing experience and sometimes take their business elsewhere.

Now, we have a trend on the rise called insourcing, where Americans are being employed by companies in India to do call centers so that the buyers do business with someone who culturally understands them and is able to speak their language. Like this, many employees have managed to make themselves valuable to their company as human beings again. This is why you should never underestimate the power of how your cultural upbringing and abilities can aid you in career management.

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

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