Job or Career - Which one do you prefer?
Interestingly we hear in the corporate world that the career of the employees matter rather than just a job. I suppose you know the difference already. Yes the whole world of recruitment is also job-oriented rather than career-oriented. If you are being interviewed for your career and not just a job, consider yourself lucky. The usual practice in any interview, is to wind it up with an HR round before you are offered a job (believe me we should change our perception to offer a 'career' and not just a 'job'). These HR round of interview has some inclination towards finding out what you want to do in the next year or 3 years or 5 years. It is just a way to understand if you have some plan for your future or if you are ambitious enough.
An obvious thing about the interviews is that you bloat up (or sell yourself well) your experience a bit, be it either on resume or verbally. Isn't it true that we all do this? Yes if you are honest and it is a proven fact that every interviewee markets himself well to get the job. Now what are its implications. If the position offered and the candidate's expectations from job are too wide in gap then it leads to a wrong recruit unless you adapt to it. At least I have faced this scenario a couple of times in my career....no wonder I changed job every year in my initial career.
Organisations today want to see an employee have job satisfaction. If the goal is just to see the your employee being happy in his current role and no plan for growth then it is the first sign of danger. To survive you need to learn and relearn what you have already learnt. Let me add a word to it - to survive you need to relearn and 'implement' what you have learnt. The word is 'implement', something which I see is a bit lacking in Indian policies today. It does remind me of the Nike's slogan 'Just do it'. On the political front in India, we saw two major implementations which many said was wrong in its execution - one being Aadhaar card, other being Demonisation move. Believe me both these were executed in the best possible way per my opinion looking at the scale and the volume of it.
Coming back to my topic - 'Career'...the question lies 'does your organisation have a 5-year plan or a 3-year plan or even for that matter 1-year plan for you to grow?'. If it has, then you are fortunate if it is being implemented appropriately. Everyone has a job...it is those who have a career are the ones that are lucky. The onus of planning for a career is with you too. Plan for a career and stick to it.
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Hope you have a wonderful career ahead!!
An obvious thing about the interviews is that you bloat up (or sell yourself well) your experience a bit, be it either on resume or verbally. Isn't it true that we all do this? Yes if you are honest and it is a proven fact that every interviewee markets himself well to get the job. Now what are its implications. If the position offered and the candidate's expectations from job are too wide in gap then it leads to a wrong recruit unless you adapt to it. At least I have faced this scenario a couple of times in my career....no wonder I changed job every year in my initial career.
Organisations today want to see an employee have job satisfaction. If the goal is just to see the your employee being happy in his current role and no plan for growth then it is the first sign of danger. To survive you need to learn and relearn what you have already learnt. Let me add a word to it - to survive you need to relearn and 'implement' what you have learnt. The word is 'implement', something which I see is a bit lacking in Indian policies today. It does remind me of the Nike's slogan 'Just do it'. On the political front in India, we saw two major implementations which many said was wrong in its execution - one being Aadhaar card, other being Demonisation move. Believe me both these were executed in the best possible way per my opinion looking at the scale and the volume of it.
Coming back to my topic - 'Career'...the question lies 'does your organisation have a 5-year plan or a 3-year plan or even for that matter 1-year plan for you to grow?'. If it has, then you are fortunate if it is being implemented appropriately. Everyone has a job...it is those who have a career are the ones that are lucky. The onus of planning for a career is with you too. Plan for a career and stick to it.
Hope you have a wonderful career ahead!!
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