(Paramedic training) THE ACADEMY OF BUSINESS STRATEGY - REACTIVE CAREER MANAGEMENT
No commentsBy Kenneth Troon
AUTHOR
Dr. Pauline Joseph DBA MBA
Research from the leisure industry tells us that only 7.5 per cent of members who join a gym actually attend on a regular basis. The remaining 92.5 per cent still pay their annual or monthly membership fees but do not attend regularly.
What is even more interesting is that members who make up this 92.5 per cent have no regular attendance patterns at all. They may attend regularly for a month or two and then lose interest. In six months time they try again for a month or two and then once again lose interest. By contrast the members who make to the 5 per cent who do regularly attend are likely to have consistent exercise plans which they implement methodically and improve gradually.
We receive similar feedback from the hospitality industry. Hotels groups report that those hotels with more extensive leisure and fitness facilities regularly tend to achieve higher bookings than those hotels where such facilities are lacking, but the interesting thing is that we still find that only 12 per cent of hotel residents then actually use these facilities during their stay.
As we mentioned earlier research conducted on Harvard students 20 years after they had graduated showed that 5 per cent were earning more money than the other 95 per cent combined. The only difference was that 5 per cent had clear practical career objectives before studying and were merely using the Harvard programmes as vehicles to identify the correct strategies in order to achieve their career objectives. The remaining students were enrolling upon these programmes because they wanted to achieve a Harvard qualification in the hope that this would somehow lead to greater career prospects.
This latter objective is perfectly reasonable of course and would invariably be achieved to some degree, but the fact that 5 per cent of these students will still achieve more money than the other 95 per cent combined is an enlightening statistic. The difference is nothing more complicated than having a good career management strategy in place and being capable of implementing it.
All of these statistics from various different industries are ultimately really telling us the same story. The majority of people tend to be reactive by nature, in other words, they do things only when they have to and tend to wait for circumstances to jolt them into action. This trend is also reflected within companies too. Some of the biggest global companies can still at times be managed and directed by a reactive management team.
This merely reflects human nature of course. We have seen it so many times where a company has achieved significant growth, secures significant market share, only to squander this achievement by then becoming complacent.
Developing an effective career management strategy is rather like developing an effective diet. Crash diets simply do not work. Indeed they tend to be bad for our health. We may lose some weight in the short-term but it will invariably all go back on when we lose interest and go back to living the way we were before we started the diet. All that we have achieved by doing this is putting our bodies through harmful and unnecessary stress.
Sustainable weight loss is achieved only by introducing a positive and permanent change of lifestyle. The emphasis here of course is on the word permanent.
Studying is very similar. Those students who have not studied since they left university and are considering enrolling upon a programme maybe 10 or 20 years later, will always find it much harder than those students who have always committed 10 per cent of their time towards ongoing self-development ever since leaving university.
So we have learnt that the majority of people are reactive by nature. This is in itself no great surprise, but perhaps the extent of this complacency, as illustrated within the statistics above, is the most disturbing factor. You can to some extent understand complacency creeping in at times with exercise, diet, leisure and studying. We are after all none of us perfect. But it is still somewhat surprising and disturbing that so many of us appear to be complacent with the development of our own careers.
Our career, after all, is about survival and prosperity. It directly affects our quality of life. Money and success do not in themselves buy happiness, but they certainly help. The biggest cause of negative stress is caused by the feeling that you are not in control.
Consequently not being in control of your own career development surely constitutes one of the major causes of stress and inevitably poor health too. Proactive career management is not just about being able to earn more money. It is about achieving a better work-life balance, achieving a better quality of life, spending more time with your family and improving your health. The fact that 95 per cent of the working population are prepared to leave this entirely to chance is amazing.
In reality most individuals only tend to think about their career development when they are forced into doing so by some form of emergent change, such as redundancy, a lack of promotion prospects, a disagreement with a work colleague perhaps, or a sudden recognition of a lack of personal achievement when compared to our peers.
We then tend to put in a disproportionate amount of effort in over a short period of time until the problem we have identified has been resolved quickly and then the sooner we are able to fall back into our comfort zone, commonly referred to as complacency, the happier we will be.
We all know of course whether we should consider ourselves to be part of the 5 per cent proactive category or the 95 per cent reactive category. Recognizing and actually admitting that we are probably in the latter category is for many a challenge in itself. We all like to consider ourselves to be successful and we all consider that we work very hard too, but career management success should be measured solely by our achievements, not by how hard we might work.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Pauline Joseph DBA MBA is a human resource specialist who has 11 years experience in HR and 8 years experience within the executive recruitment industry. She has enjoyed a rewarding career in the board room of market leading global companies within the Fashion, Retail, Leisure and Healthcare industries. She now works within the professional education industry and is a registered Professor at the Academy of Business Strategy.
URL LINKS
Certificate in Career Management Strategy.
Getting the right kind of Oil Jobs to boost your Oil Career
By vikram kuamr
In the current scenario, oil plays a vital role in our lives. Without all of the oil jobs that are present in the market today, there wouldve been a crisis affecting pretty much all nations on the globe. Hence, a job in this industry is with added benefits, something that should be lucrative if you are planning on building an oil career.
There are many different kinds of oil jobs in the world today, each designed to cater to a specific market. Considering the versatility of the business, you will be amazed at how effortlessly you can build an oil career and make money in this field.
Additionally, oil jobs also have other perks that you might want to consider before turning down the option altogether. The biggest perk as of today is that senior positions get subsidized rates on the oil products. This alone can save you quite a lot of money. Besides, having a successful oil career today is something that not everyone thinks about, which means lesser competition for you as well.
The common belief that renewable energy is going to destroy oil careers is a complete myth. In fact, engineers who are working at various oil jobs are actually involved in active research to find out prospective sources of clean energy. Hence, the two industries are working in tandem, and not against each other.
Another belief is that most oil jobs involve operating rigs or other mechanical jobs that can get your hands dirty. Once again, this too is a complete myth because not everyone with an oil career necessarily works with the oil in person. People who are involved in research have a job comparable to research in any other industry.
Oil companies often have tie-ups with numerous other big corporations which will give you a hands-on experience to learn something from them as well as boost your oil career. This should be reason enough to go out and look for an oil job. Imagine working for some of the biggest names in the industry through your oil company. The career rewards are pretty impressive.
It may be challenging to sift through the hundreds of postings of the companies to find the correct type of oil job that you require. Often, people end up applying to all the jobs available, which is quite a huge undertaking and is a complete waste of time and energy. The best way to look for oil jobs is to go through a reputed agency that can help you with your oil career and point you in the right direction. These agencies often come equipped with facilities that are difficult to match on your own. They often know in advance what are the positions that are available and they also have a pretty good idea of which companies are offering a better remuneration and which ones have better job prospects. Going through an agency is definitely the way to go for anyone looking for oil careers.
Finally, it is also about how much you love doing your job. Dont enter a field for the wrong reasons. Stick to good ethics and ideals and you should have a rewarding career is the field of your choice.
For getting the correct listing of all available Oil jobs and then applying for the right ones to build a successful Oil Career, always take the help of a professional. Careersoilgas is a reputable resource in this regard; do give them a try.
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Aged Care Jobs
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Disabled Career Jobs in UK
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All of us need love, care and appreciation in all the age especially for those people who are aged and disabled. These people need attention and love from their loved ones as well as to be appreciated at their work place. Love and the appreciation serve the biggest motivation for these people to live their life with the self esteem.
Being aged does not mean that these people are not productive. They can be healthy and give productive results to the organizations. No doubt they need extra care from their loved ones to take care of them. But these people involved in the fulfillment of specific needs and requirements that are unique to these senior citizens and encompass such services as in-home care, assisted living, adult day care, long term care and nursing homes providing varying levels of care depending on the needs of individuals are among many options people have to choose from.
There are many firms who help and involved in providing aged care jobs in UK. It has to be taken into the consideration is the job a person has. Each job is helpful and useful in its own way, so no one should be intolerable to someone because they are doing useless job. Each kind of job helps the person to feel his necessity to the society. It does not matter the way you are earning for life. Take as example the work of the janitor. Someone consider this job very bad and useless and a person doing it must be stupid. So tolerance runs into few characteristics such as the handwriting, talking to the elderly or what sort of job you are having especially to the aged people and the disable people. For them its a survival of their life and to be independent in their life.
Aged Care Jobs helps aged people to gain respect and to live their life independently without the help of others. Many people ignore them and treat them disrespectfully but if they are independent then chances of having these feelings gets reduced. Being aged tolerance power gets reduced so it is very important for them to be patient and have some tolerance power not only at their home but also at the work place too. It is very important to understand that every person is unique in its own way and you are not inferior to it because it differs from you somehow. While meeting a new person it is necessary to realize that it may be different from you but you should be tolerant of it in any situation for the aged people.
ENA is the perfect place who finds jobs for the disabled people and aged care jobs or the people travelling to the UK.
ENA finds work in home aged care and disability care for people travelling to the UK. If you want work as a disability carer or aged carer living and supporting someone in their home, ENA Jobs will place you in work.
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