Maintaining a job

Some of our young professionals have a different mindset about the job. They thought that now there are no worries in the life, as they got the job. But this is not a right way.

Today’s world is of Globalization and open economy. It was a good sign in the past to stay in a single job for a long time. But now, the word “stability” has different meaning among the youngsters. Stability now means a stoppage in the professional carrier. Now the youngsters are regularly updating their skill sets by doing short term or long term courses and moving ahead in their career by switching the job regularly. This way redirects any professional to achieve a good designation in the office at a very short span of time with a good salary package. If you also want to succeed in your life using the same way, you have to add something in your personality.

1. Keep yourself updated: One need to keep updated in each and every front of life. Reading of newspapers and magazines should be a regular practice. Try to understand the new technologies and areas coming in the market. Better to understand the new products and their characteristics and use them in your day-to-day talks.

2. Keep an eye: Time is the only asset in life. So one should better utilize the time. And to do this, one should be aware of the new opportunities and use them at the right time and right place.

3. Networking: Networking plays a major role in the success of your life. It should be a part of your life. Do not ignore it in your daily pressurized professional life.

4. Do not tension: You have to encounter numerous problems and issues in your life. So no need to tension and better to fight the same and come out as a winner. Make a habit to consider each and every issue as a normal event and react accordingly. Better not to set many expectations from others because if they do not fulfill, they will give you tensions only.

5. Know your strengths: SWOT analysis should be a part of your daily life. SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It means one should identify SWOT in his life. Better to identify your strengths and switch your job accordingly. If you are not aware of your strengths, how come you will get an appropriate job?

6. Keep control: Try to be emotional intelligent. Keep your control on your feelings and think from your mind, not from your heart.

7. Think positive: How far will you go in your life, depends on how you are thinking for each and every situation. Be optimistic in life and set your aims in life. Try to achieve them continuously by doing hard work as well as smart work. Take a break whenever you feel that you are thinking pessimistically.

8. Improve skills: Improvement is a never ending exercise. So don’t sit relaxed after getting a job. Regular update and add new skills. If you will add more eligibility and skills in your professional life, you will get more and better job offers.

I have seen many colleagues and sub-ordinates in my professional life, who wants to achieve a lot in their life but are not following the above points. Some of them are so much relaxed in their current job that they are working like a “Fool Employee” in the organization. The paradox with those “Fool Employees” is that they always criticize whatever is happening in their professional life but have no plans to come up with all those stupid things.

To survive and grow up in a particular job, one need to do hard work habitually.

-- Sanat Sharma