Many questions and comments on how to act to become ready after the piece on “You’re Ready”. Let me respond in a simple way: get things done, and get your job done professionally right. If you pursue excellence, and make it evident creatively, your options will widen in the world of the market system. Simply, strive to be the best you can, and where talent fails you, put more effort. As you do that, have awareness that no matter what you have accomplished, no worker in a decent company is indispensable.
What do I mean? Do not be carried away because you’re wearing any company’s badge. Do not allow a company to define your personality, as the risk is that any day you leave that company, you will be worth nothing. Try to project a positive professional personality because if you get that right, your personal brand will outlive any associated company. They will remember you before they remember the badge. (Some people delete their LinkedIn profiles when they lose their jobs because the job was them! Do not be like them. There is no job you are holding that someone has not resigned from!)
Companies make promises, but do not bank on them blindly. Period, companies have no kids; only families do! Work hard and offer value but stay professionally focused. But do not fall on the illusion that your company is your family.
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Remember in the past, resumes and CVs were “personal confidential” documents, but when companies started firing people recklessly, LinkedIn gave professionals a way for revenge. Yes, why keep that resume private when if you post it on LinkedIn, you could advertise yourself just in case? The peerless wordsmith, Chinua Achebe, wrote: ‘Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.’
Part of becoming ready is doing all to be in charge of your career, and not allowing companies to toss your future around, even as you do all to rise to the occasions to lead and manage when called. I do not want you to lose focus at work especially in American companies where a bad quarter can send thousands packing.
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