Career Management – Managing more than just a job
September 24, 2010
We have been bombarded with smart terms like career development. Now comes, career management. This term is as personal as it can get. It is your individual and personal responsibility to check and move the graph in directions that you chose for yourself. Do not look to organizations to chart out a plan for you. You are not their responsibility. They are here to make money at the end of the day, and if it takes to develop your career in a way that benefits them best, they will do so. The important thing to admit here is that, is your thought process and that of the organization you are working for, in sync with each other? Do your expectations and that of the organization match?
There will be times, when what benefits them will not be as beneficial for you. Maybe your potential to the 100% has still not been tapped. Maybe the job is great and the career is going great guns, but it probably is not the thing you want to do for the rest of your life. So, now, who becomes responsible for the way your career is going. You are! Managing careers is by far the most excruciating of all tasks that the most capable and innovative of people have failed to accomplish. Feel free to join the bandwagon. Or jump off it, whilst there is still time!
Career management should be a pre-configured set of planning moves and active involvement and say in planning one’s own professional career. Successful interpretation and application of this aspect can result in a life that you can call complete. Personal objectives being met, with work-life balance since man is a social animal, with financial stability and security taken care of – life does come in a full circle.
Realistic understanding of your goals will help you stay rooted to the ground. The awareness, that only dreaming will not help, can do wonders. Sleep has to be lost, if your focus has to remain intact. Plan a strategy to reach there. Plan to support the plan- yes we are talking about contingency plans. Chalk out the Do’s and Don’ts. Implement and constantly evaluate. Be open to change and resistance. Work on work-around solutions. Always have a plan B and a plan C and yet another plan!
Management fundamentals hold well in every sphere of life. After all, you are constantly managing work, managing your boss, managing home, managing relationships, managing your link with the society in general. Maybe it is time you started managing your life on your terms. Maybe giving your career a direction that you feel fits best in your picture is what will get you there. The choice is yours. Either you can live life to the hilt, or you just go on dragging!
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