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How often do you think employees submit to changes a company makes in line with job duties, benefits, and growth within the organization?
Every. To separate. Day.
The problem is not the change itself, but that the restructuring was not discussed with the employee before he was hired.
Sometimes the changes are beneficial, but in other scenarios the decisions made could cause conflicts with individual needs or values. The main problem is that many employees are “at will,” which means that the terms of the relationship can be changed or terminated at will by either party. Although the number of times employers vary, the terms are significantly higher than for employees. Because? Why did you leave them.
Interview for a job
You submitted 150 questions, finally got a call back, and then there’s a slight sigh of relief. Maybe all of your mailings didn’t go to a company’s SPAM folder after all? The first conversation is quite often with a recruiter or HR representative and this is the first opportunity to avoid being a victim. This means stating what you need, what you are not open to, and not asking hard questions.
Businesses provide services and products at a price and consumers (B2C) or other businesses (B2B) pay for it. The company sets the price and the customer pays the price or not.
Employees also render a service, and if the employee sets the price, the employer will pay the price or not (for example, salary, bonuses, benefits, and other demands).
There is no rule that says you cannot indicate your price. It actually saves time when you do this and recruiters will love you for it. Are you worried about your bass balling by setting a price that may be at the lower end of your budget? Aim high!
Here’s what happens next: you declare a price, they say it’s too high, you give their budget, and you decide if you can work on it or not. Do you know how it sounds? Deal.
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Grow within the company
The only problem with growing within an organization if you are an “at will” employee instead of being a union, government employee, etc. or getting more rewards or opportunities based on role, is that your growth sometimes depends on variables beyond your control.
You could be working overtime for 3 years, just to be in exactly the same position. This is because a company runs one and you rely on what’s there instead of running your own.
A company:
- Change their prices, (indicate what you need).
- Change their business structure (e.g. how you will operate when they do).
- Change their hours of operation, (set some for yourself because you are not a machine).
- Change their direction for the company (do exactly the same for yourself even if it means offering your services to another potential client).
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Career goals outside the company
Typically, companies have key performance indicators (that is, goals and information about how your role will help achieve them). They do this to give you goals and ask you to create some. It is very easy to fixate on these because very often your ability to perform against them determines some part of your compensation and progression.
The only concern of leveraging this model for their entire career is that it is from a profit standpoint. If you have your KPIs. and use similar quantitative metrics to measure where you are at where you are trying to be, your career could be further optimized.
Remaining marketable
It’s easy to settle for a role because you’ve been doing it for several years, but if you need to get back on the market for another job either voluntarily or in lieu of a layoff, you’d never want to be at the whim of another company out of desperation for a job. . The best position to be in is to understand the demands of the market, so that you can understand how to be a high-level service provider.
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