Knowing When to Take that Next Step in your Career
One of the biggest dilemmas a person will face in their career is knowing just when to make a move. This decision can lead to sleepless nights, anxiety, a feeling of letting people down and can prove in some instances critical as often a person may put up with a number of shortcomings in an organisation’s makeup whether it is inadequate staff numbers, poor computer systems, lousy office conditions or maybe not receiving that bonus that they were offered when first signing up for fear of the outside world and whether it would it better somewhere else.
A person may also hang around on the premise that they are going to get the promotion to their boss’s position only to find out just like Peter Coste11o that his boss is not going anywhere in a hurry and it may be that good opportunities outside of their business pass them by.
Quite often it usually is better elsewhere but jeopardising the ‘what you know’ to the great unknown is a very difficult thing and can prove to be nerve racking for the not so experienced job movers .. Other reasons many people don’t take the jump are there own certain comfort level with their job their surroundings and their work mates so cutting ties gets that little bit more difficult. A good employer will quite often plead with you not to go because your are ‘too valuable” and the place will fall down without you, this whilst a suitable ego boost should never interfere with the fact that none of the promises the company may have made for the last 2 years have not come close to fruition and the pay rise you may have received if you had any pay review just never eventuated.
I have also heard on many occasions how companies have ‘thrown ridiculous amounts of money at people” so as to have their total 7 day a week 24 hour commitment and whilst in the early stages this can prove to be financially beneficial the continual calling on weekends and on holidays wears thin. So it is important to think about these following facts when thinking about moving on.
20 years ago it was common place that a person would stick with the same company for a period of 7 years plus, 10 years ago it would be common that a person would be in an organisation for a minimum of 5 years, however now and depending on the sector and career that an individual is in it is common place that 2-3 years is seen as the norm before a person moves on.
With technology changing at a rapid rate and the world moving even faster, people usually either choose to get in the “chum” and expand their knowledge and skill base with a different company or they choose to stay put and maybe loose vital experience.
Quite often it usually is better elsewhere but jeopardising the ‘what you know’ to the great unknown is a very difficult thing and can prove to be nerve racking for the not so experienced job movers .. Other reasons many people don’t take the jump are there own certain comfort level with their job their surroundings and their work mates so cutting ties gets that little bit more difficult. A good employer will quite often plead with you not to go because your are ‘too valuable” and the place will fall down without you, this whilst a suitable ego boost should never interfere with the fact that none of the promises the company may have made for the last 2 years have not come close to fruition and the pay rise you may have received if you had any pay review just never eventuated.
I have also heard on many occasions how companies have ‘thrown ridiculous amounts of money at people” so as to have their total 7 day a week 24 hour commitment and whilst in the early stages this can prove to be financially beneficial the continual calling on weekends and on holidays wears thin. So it is important to think about these following facts when thinking about moving on.
20 years ago it was common place that a person would stick with the same company for a period of 7 years plus, 10 years ago it would be common that a person would be in an organisation for a minimum of 5 years, however now and depending on the sector and career that an individual is in it is common place that 2-3 years is seen as the norm before a person moves on.
With technology changing at a rapid rate and the world moving even faster, people usually either choose to get in the “chum” and expand their knowledge and skill base with a different company or they choose to stay put and maybe loose vital experience.
