World is quickly changing through its own cycle and knowing your place especially in career world is really crucial and important.
Facing Globalization and digitization has made very important and challenging to find the proper career that fits to you, and finding the best position sometime is very difficult, stressful but on the other side very crucial decision to achieve success and professional improvement.
In the article "The Key to Choosing the Right Career" by Heidi Grant( published in Harvard Business review https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-key-to-choosing-the-right) it is explained by the author that choosing the career path or changing one, is for most of us a confusing and anxiety-riddled experience.
The rapid change in the work nature due to technology involved developments like Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence , etc. and also innovation, have increased the access to different level of knowledge and made the career paths more complex and difficult to be properly chosen.
Nowadays it is very important to find a way to "survive" to employees replacement by robots and machines, thus making ourselves a "precious asset" in the proper career field, will help to reach this main goal.
How can we find the proper career that fits to our goal of "market survival"?
First of all we need to know what type of job-seeker we are.
Heidi Grant in his above mentioned article made a very interesting division of the types of job-seekers and also the fields of interest they are excelling at, being:
( Cited below from: https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-key-to-choosing-the-right, Heidi Grant, accessed 23.12.2019)
In the article "The Key to Choosing the Right Career" by Heidi Grant( published in Harvard Business review https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-key-to-choosing-the-right) it is explained by the author that choosing the career path or changing one, is for most of us a confusing and anxiety-riddled experience.
The rapid change in the work nature due to technology involved developments like Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence , etc. and also innovation, have increased the access to different level of knowledge and made the career paths more complex and difficult to be properly chosen.
Nowadays it is very important to find a way to "survive" to employees replacement by robots and machines, thus making ourselves a "precious asset" in the proper career field, will help to reach this main goal.
How can we find the proper career that fits to our goal of "market survival"?
First of all we need to know what type of job-seeker we are.
Heidi Grant in his above mentioned article made a very interesting division of the types of job-seekers and also the fields of interest they are excelling at, being:
( Cited below from: https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-key-to-choosing-the-right, Heidi Grant, accessed 23.12.2019)
- Promotion-focused people excel at:
- Creativity and innovation
- Seizing opportunities o get ahead
- Embracing risk
- Working quickly
- Generating lots of options and alternatives
- Abstract thinking
(Unfortunately, they are also more error-prone, overly-optimistic, and more likely to take risks that land them in hot water
2. Prevention-focused people excel at:
- Thoroughness and being detail-oriented
- Analytical thinking and reasoning
- Planning
- Accuracy (working flawlessly)
- Reliability
- Anticipating problems
(Unfortunately, they are also wary of change or taking chances, rigid, and work more slowly. Diligence takes time.)
Do not follow only passion or inner feelings. Choosing the proper career path is much more than that. It requires lots of research and trainings and also access to lots of information on future career positions that fit with the type of personal orientation you have and also the skills you already have or are on the way to create.
Take care in being informed and updated in new skills and knowledge , to become an added value of an organization , a company or personal entrepreneurship
Make a map/design of what you can offer with your knowledge and skills so far, what are your strengths and weaknesses with what you have so far. Make research on what are the best positions you can offer the best of you and make you motivated and willing to contribute and also understand properly what you want to improve in order to suit to the best sector you are interested in , being either an employee or a self-employeed.
Be smart to get the chances.
Ortenca
