65% of Americans Are Currently Looking For Their Next Job…
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
In an article in Time Magazine that is really about The Great Reshuffle, they state that 65% of Americans are looking for a new job. They title the article as “When the Future of Work Means Always Looking For Your Next Job.” I think the title overstates the case and the circumstances to state that people are doing this. They should be open to better opportunities, claim they are, but really aren’t.
One person wrote, “Respectfully, that is not a good attitude nor a good direction. Keep on looking for other opportunities always? means that one doesn’t concentrate on the current job or future with the current company. If you take up a job, give it 100% and be honest with your employer and yourself and don’t treat every job a “waiting room.”
I responded
The person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or work the hardest although those are great qualities to have. People get ahead by being alert to opportunity. Sometimes they are internal to an organization. Most of the time they are external.
People need to function as the chair of the board of their own organization and not outsource their career development and planning to their employer. Everyone needs to be conscious of what serves them and their future because almost all companies will make difficult decisions to release people and will receive praise for making those hard decisions when times are tough.
Individuals are expected to have almost blind loyalty to a company and accept the consequences of their employer’s choices.
Nonsense.
Always being open for your next great job doesn’t mean aggressively looking. It means doing the networking and the work to step into the next great role. This is how individuals create the two-way street that serves them, just as employers have created a system of “at-will employment” that serves them.
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