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Good Career Management Is The Best Way To Get Ahead In Your Career

By: Arthur Manford Chambers III

In today’s world of heightening world-wide competition, technological advancement, and market trends, good career management is necessary. You must take control of your career as if you are the star player of the game setting up the play for the final touchdown. In order to stay on top in your field, you can’t afford to relax after you find employment and take it for granted that you will be able to keep it or that it will never change. Most people in the workforce would not like that anyways. It would be boring and eventually lose its appeal.

So, how do you work in an unstable work environment while keeping yourself positive and in control? You don’t want to worry yourself that every little rumor from the corporate mill has you fearful of a layoff. You want to be prepared in the event of a layoff, but you also want to be sure that you are an important part to your company. Don’t assume you are irreplaceable, but don’t assume the company is going to close either.

In the corporate world, people have become easy to replace. Envision yourself as something that you are trying to sell to your company, every day. If the product you are selling is an asset to your company, it will continue to buy your brand. If, however, your product isn’t maintained, is easily replaced, or becomes difficult, then the company will quit buying the product.

One of the most necessary functions of a company is to generate profit. If the commodity they hold, you, is not valuable to them in terms of profit, then they may decide in tough times to release you and find some other way to fill your position. That’s the cold, hard, view of business.

The previous view was what generated much of the stampede towards outsourcing in previous years. Many jobs were not only easily replaceable for less in other countries, but the business owners doing the replacing saw no benefit to keeping an American employed versus looking to hire someone in another country. One of the greatest areas that this trend impacted was the outsourcing of technical support and customer service call centers.

Now, we are starting to realize the problem with the view of a human being as just a part in a big machine. The outcome is that workers leave those positions and look for jobs elsewhere in another area of industry. In the mean time, foreigners may not understand the cultural environment of the buyers they are dealing with in the United States. The result is that customers get frustrated with their purchasing experience and sometimes take their business elsewhere.

Now, we have a trend called insourcing, where Americans are being hired by buisnesses in India to do call centers so that the buyers do business with someone who is culturally similar and can speak their language. Like this, many employees have made themselves a valuable asset to their company as human beings again. This is why you should never take for granted the power of how your cultural upbringing and abilities can help you in career management.

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Arthur Manford Chambers III is a career specialist and writer. Find out more about up to date tips in career management on the author's website and also receive internet career guides, and a career training "special report". Plus you can download the author's new career handbook, a complete guide to career management. www.career-recruitment.com

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