Smart Career Management Is The Best Way To Succeed In Your Career

By: Colin

In this world of escalating global competition, technological displacement, and market trends, good career management is important. You have to take control 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 just sit back after you get a job and assume you will keep it forever or that it will never change. Most people would not want that anyways. It would be tiring and eventually lose its charm.

So, how do you work in a shaky work area while keeping yourself positive and in control? You don’t want to get so paranoid that every little rumor from the corporate mill has you fearful of a layoff. You want to prepare yourself in case of a layoff, but you also want to be positive that you are a needed strength to your company. Don’t assume you will not be replaced, but don’t assume the company is going under either.

In the workplace, people have become easily replaceable. Envision yourself as a product that you are selling to your company, every day. If the product you are selling is a benefit 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 more trouble than it is worth, then the company will quit buying the product.

One of the most necessary goals of a company is to produce a profit. If the commodity they hold, their employee, is not valuable when it comes to the bottom line, then they may decide in tough times to release you and look for some other way to do your job. That’s the reality of business.

The previous view was what initiated much of the rush towards outsourcing in past years. Many positions were not only easily replaced for less in other countries, but the business owners making the change saw no reason to keeping an American employee versus employing someone in a foreign. One of the main areas that this trend influenced was the outsourcing of technical support and customer service call centers.

Now, we are beginning to see the problem with the concept of a human being as just a cog in a big machine. The outcome is that employees leave those positions and look for work elsewhere in another sector of industry. Meanwhile, people from foreign countries 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 find other places to do business.

Now, we have a trend called insourcing, where Americans are being hired out by industries in India to answer calls in call centers so that the buyers are met with someone who comes from the same cultural enviroment and can speak their language. This is how many employees have managed to make themselves valuable to their company as human beings again. For this reason, you should never underestimate the power of how your cultural influence and soft skills can help you in career management.

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Arthur Manford Chambers III is a career guide and writer. Discover more about up to date tips in career management on the author's website and also receive 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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