Looking For A Change????
A year into your new job and you've seen it happen all around you - job hopping - as shifts and changes have become part of the landscape at work. You too begin to ponder; maybe it's your turn to move on... But, wait! Do you really have to?
The credentials are right, you are a marketing professional with a management degree, and two years plus experience in multinational. That's reason enough for people to make offers, for a placement co-ordinator to call, or for the advertisements in your daily newspaper to invite your attention, for jobsites sms-ing you details of new job listings and make you think again. But before you go decide about that move to shift from your present job, the question to ask yourself Is there anything unique which I know or have done which very few people have done or know?
If the answer to either of them is in the affirmative then it may not be a good idea to consider a change and if the answer does not apply to either of them then it may be a good decision to change.
Here are a few things that you must consider while making that big leap.
Risk Analysis
Before getting into that new job that one is getting, you need to analyze the new job. Two questions need to be asked Whether the company is on a growth path and will the new job help me acquire new skills?
However, the information available on growth aspects may not be correct and there will be some element of doubt which can only be minimized by analyzing the financials, checking out the credibility of the company, analyzing track records of the people in top management, talking to employees of that company; the interview process is a good opportunity to probe and form an opinion.
Consider The Work Culture
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The credentials are right, you are a marketing professional with a management degree, and two years plus experience in multinational. That's reason enough for people to make offers, for a placement co-ordinator to call, or for the advertisements in your daily newspaper to invite your attention, for jobsites sms-ing you details of new job listings and make you think again. But before you go decide about that move to shift from your present job, the question to ask yourself Is there anything unique which I know or have done which very few people have done or know?
If the answer to either of them is in the affirmative then it may not be a good idea to consider a change and if the answer does not apply to either of them then it may be a good decision to change.
Here are a few things that you must consider while making that big leap.
Risk Analysis
Before getting into that new job that one is getting, you need to analyze the new job. Two questions need to be asked Whether the company is on a growth path and will the new job help me acquire new skills?
However, the information available on growth aspects may not be correct and there will be some element of doubt which can only be minimized by analyzing the financials, checking out the credibility of the company, analyzing track records of the people in top management, talking to employees of that company; the interview process is a good opportunity to probe and form an opinion.
Consider The Work Culture
Read this entire dating article?
posted by harneu @ 10:02 PM
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