Are You Looking for a Stable Job?
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
More and more people are saying that their main priority in changing jobs is finding a stable job. What is a stable job? How can you find one?
00:00 Introduction
00:35 What is a stable job?
01:17 What’s wrong with a stable job?
03:27 Outro
Hi. I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter and people hire me for no BS career advice. I spotted an article that talked about a shift in how people are looking at jobs. They’re now looking for stable jobs. I’m not sure that they were ever not looking for a degree of stability. But this article made it seem like statistics were showing that in the past, people weren’t looking at that as much as they are now.
So let me first start off by defining what a stable job is. One definition I saw that made sense to me was, a stable job refers to a position that employees can keep for long periods of time. For example, an individual can work for the same company for decades, or maintain a career in a stable field for many years. These jobs may also offer stability to employees in other ways, such as consistent working hours and salaries. Nice definition, and let’s work with that as the example of the stable job. And if you have a different one, by all means, put it into a message for me with it. And I’ll respond to you to talk with you about it.
The problem with this with a stable job, it’s the definition of a full-time position, not a permanent position, because there are no permanent positions. It’s a stable job. It’s a full-time job. It occupies all your time. The problem is, you have no way of evaluating whether it’s really stable. You think you do, because often one of the shortcuts that people use is ‘big company.’
Unfortunately, big companies are often the first firms to lay off huge numbers of people. Why? Because as business suffers, they have no loyalty to their staff. There are exceptions to this but most of them conduct themselves that way. They look after their own interests, the interests of the shareholders, as they rightly should.
Now going the extra mile, how does that affect you? You’ve kidded yourself into believing that this is a stable position. What really generates stability are the skills that you have, and the experience that you pick up from an organization. Is it going to be marketable to another firm afterward? After all, you need to think about turnover, and changing jobs. Nothing is going to allow you to stay at one organization for 10 or 20 years, nor will you want to stay at an organization for 10 or 20 years, unless you’re prepared to zone out mentally. Because that’s often the way people do it. They start, shall we say, losing their minds, becoming dull, and they lose their ambition.
So don’t think in terms of large companies as being stable, think in terms of what skills you bring to the marketplace that you can enhance while working at a firm so that this way, if they make a business decision, you’re not adversely affected, and in effect what you’re doing is recession proofing your career.
Hope you found this helpful. I’m Jeff Altman. Again, people hire me for no BS career advice. And you can find out more and schedule time for a free discovery call to evaluate me for coaching at my website, TheBigGameHunter.us And you can also schedule a time for a paid coaching session there too. You can also find out about my courses, books, and guides. Again a lot there to help you.
Also, connect with me on Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter. Have a terrific day and be great.
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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS Career Advice globally. That can involve job search, hiring staff, management, leadership, career transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. Schedule a discovery call at my website, www.TheBigGameHunter.us
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