How to manage your career?
12 June 2014
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A career is built and is never the result of chance. Until the age of thirty, the goal is to demonstrate that you deserve to be given more responsibilities. After 40, the moment of truth arrives: either you still have room for improvement, or you have reached your professional peak. Thus, a career is truly decided between 30 and 40 years old.
Be patient…
To build a career, patience is required. Companies like loyal employees. It is sometimes necessary to endure temporary frustrations rather than marking your resume with hasty decisions, which will have to be justified later.
….While taking initiatives
However, you must know how to make decisions. When you think you have done everything in a position and you are bored, when promotions are systematically given to your colleagues, or when you feel like you are stagnating, you must think about changing….for the better….While being able to justify each change of position by a progression or obtaining a better situation.
Keep up to date…
Without leaving the ship every two years, consider outside offers. A monitoring attitude towards the job market is strongly recommended.
Always keep an up-to-date resume, regularly check job offers, read the press and keep yourself informed, initiate contacts with recruitment professionals and maintain your professional and personal network.
….While soliciting your employer
It is up to you to solicit your employer to entrust you with responsibilities adjacent to your job description or to consider your profile for an internal promotion or simply to allow you to access training.
Do not wait for him to notice you, but rather stand out thanks to your availability, your seriousness, your investment and….your ambition.
And if you have decided to change, a few life-saving reflexes…
• Get information about the company culture, the performance management style and the social climate;
• Check that the position is in line with your aspirations, your needs and skills;
• Check that the position, the missions and the objectives to be achieved are clearly defined;
• Make sure that there is no governance conflict that paralyzes the company;
• Be aware that if the company is in difficulty or losing momentum, you will have difficulty reselling this experience.
And for those who are thinking of starting their own business…
Creating a business is a risky path that should only be considered after having earned your stripes in an established company, which will have allowed you to create a network and to thoroughly understand the sector.
However, a failure in this area is no longer prohibitive and is part of the "inevitable risks". After having reproached entrepreneurs for being too independent to integrate into established companies, they are now increasingly sought after for the dynamism they are capable of instilling…
Philippe Montant
Chief Executive Officer of ReKrute
Be patient…
To build a career, patience is required. Companies like loyal employees. It is sometimes necessary to endure temporary frustrations rather than marking your resume with hasty decisions, which will have to be justified later.
….While taking initiatives
However, you must know how to make decisions. When you think you have done everything in a position and you are bored, when promotions are systematically given to your colleagues, or when you feel like you are stagnating, you must think about changing….for the better….While being able to justify each change of position by a progression or obtaining a better situation.
Keep up to date…
Without leaving the ship every two years, consider outside offers. A monitoring attitude towards the job market is strongly recommended.
Always keep an up-to-date resume, regularly check job offers, read the press and keep yourself informed, initiate contacts with recruitment professionals and maintain your professional and personal network.
….While soliciting your employer
It is up to you to solicit your employer to entrust you with responsibilities adjacent to your job description or to consider your profile for an internal promotion or simply to allow you to access training.
Do not wait for him to notice you, but rather stand out thanks to your availability, your seriousness, your investment and….your ambition.
And if you have decided to change, a few life-saving reflexes…
• Get information about the company culture, the performance management style and the social climate;
• Check that the position is in line with your aspirations, your needs and skills;
• Check that the position, the missions and the objectives to be achieved are clearly defined;
• Make sure that there is no governance conflict that paralyzes the company;
• Be aware that if the company is in difficulty or losing momentum, you will have difficulty reselling this experience.
And for those who are thinking of starting their own business…
Creating a business is a risky path that should only be considered after having earned your stripes in an established company, which will have allowed you to create a network and to thoroughly understand the sector.
However, a failure in this area is no longer prohibitive and is part of the "inevitable risks". After having reproached entrepreneurs for being too independent to integrate into established companies, they are now increasingly sought after for the dynamism they are capable of instilling…
Philippe Montant
Chief Executive Officer of ReKrute
