First, the HR department is not necessarily established to help you, but to help the company, and support its core missions. The implication is clear: the HR will always vote on its policies and interpretations thereof for the company ahead of you. If no one has told you that, read it from me, because it is important as we move into 2025, to dispel the notion that your workplace is a family union square where everyone gathers and returns home at the end of the day. Nothing like that!
Get your job done and while a great company and its HR can always provide support and help, if the mission does not see a path into the future with you, it has to do what it has to do, irrespective of how you feel. And what does that tell us about work, career and job title?
The greatest career liberation is when your job title and where you work do not define your personality and relationship with people. Titles and workplaces are ephemeral, and if you use both to absolutely relate with people, the day they go, you will become miserable.
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Pursue a positive personality with people. Yes, your personality does not expire in the minds of people even when titles and workplaces go. In other words, the only permanent professional “title” we have is our personality, and that is the real deal. Can your co-worker recommend you for an opportunity? Can your classmate invest in a venture you are starting? When those moments come, no one remembers you as the CFO or class treasurer, but who you were via relationships and interactions.
And that takes me to the message: In 2025, I challenge you to improve your professional personality because that is a fountain where you can draw living waters of opportunities when job titles and workplace brands fade. Indeed because people like to do business/work with people who provide positive vibes, and if you make that happen, your professional options will widen.
The year 2025 must work for ALL. Have a GREAT Year 2025.
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