By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
I worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years before switching to career coaching. I did not make many job changes because I did very extremely well in the boom times. It was only under the busts of the economic cycles when clients disappeared (and a lot of my income because companies were not hired) that I changed my professional employers. It included the divorce of a business partner, closing a business and joining me the first search company I worked for 20 years, and then the few job changes I made.
When I look back on it, I realize that the people I recruited often made a smarter decision than I did. I looked at things from the economic side. How different my career and life could have been if I was not withdrawn to tolerate feeling miserable as a condition of my work and gone out and changed jobs more often.
Do you tolerate things in your career?
Is it true for you too? Do you tolerate things in your career because you have been withdrawn that this is how it is everywhere?
I coached someone not long ago who struggled with their itinerary. 25% travel was 50% travel and shortly after 100% trips without an end in sight. He rarely saw his children, his wife treated him as if he were a stranger. “Only three years until I make a director,” he told me when we planned his next course of action.
“What happens if it takes four years or five years? What then? “
“It won’t.”
“But what happens if it does?”
Silence.
I sat while wheels began to turn between the ears and his circuit fried and realized that he might give up too much. . . Or need to adopt another strategy for itself.
When I was working on recruiting, I remember I was contacted by someone who spent almost 40 years with one of the oil companies. He spent his entire career with this company starting in a relatively junior role and moving up at a snail pace that financially did not come with inflation.
“I gave my life to this company and I am now sitting at a desk with nothing to do and 90 days to find a job.”
Before you jump up and say how foolish he was to trust this company, every day, you (and I definitely did back on the day) and your employer is part of an apartment purchase. You do what they ask you to do and they will give you a certain amount and benefits.
Unfortunately, many job hunters attach certain additional things that the employer no longer or no longer accepts.
- If I do a job and work hard I can “get on.” Where do you see that in your offer letter? It’s not there.
- Your work will be interesting. Maybe your first task or assigned work will be, but after that, who knows? You could be tasked with doing work that the last three people have withdrawn after doing for 6 months. You don’t know. Why? On average, revenue is 25% or more in many employers. Why? “They were recruited for a better opportunity,” is an explanation. Accurate!
- We don’t care. Despite all the pictures of happy people in the benefits of brochure and on the site, look around. How many people smile, so much less looks happy? Try to ask this question about your future boss. “Tell me about a time when you defended your people to your boss or your leadership.“They ask behavioral interview questions about you. Why can’t you ask a simple like this?
When you think back to what you were told about the job before you were hired and what it and your employer have become, would you have taken this job today?
On a podcast interview I recently did, the host, Jeff Hyman, started a question by commenting that half of all employment managers have buyers’ remorse within a year after hiring someone (I have heard as much as two -thirds). I will tell you from experience that it does not require most job hunters to come to the same conclusion about their manager and the decision they made to participate in.
It starts with being withdrawn to the fact that they are stuck for fear that they look like a job container, so they try to endure and “hard it out” through adversity does not get better (resignation). A little death in their heart transforms them into excellent gears in the appliance.
It is so important to be in an environment that supports you best, rather than converting you to more of the same mediocrity they already have. . . And it includes companies you will include as being among the best.
It starts with courage
It starts with courage – the courage during job interviews to ask questions as hard as the ones they ask you, instead of being lovely docile sheep; Authenticity, when interviewing instead of being “lovely” (to be ready, for me, the opposite of being “lovely” is honest). Demonstrate your ability to serve others how you can be truthful and show care for everyone while you are effective for them.
Look around in your workplace. Ask yourself, “If it knew what I know now I would have taken the job?” If your answer is “no”, it’s time to stop being withdrawn to your situation and make a change.
NOW!
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