The premiums you have to pay to insure your career aren't expensive in terms of dollars and cents. Money does have to be spent on a decent wardrobe and maintaining it, on business, trade, and professional subscriptions, an answering machine, decent stationery, and on other tangible assets every job seeker and career achiever must possess. But the real cost is paid through your hard work.
The more extensive and up-to-date your network of contacts, the more job insurance you own.If you've created the personal personnel file, the amount of job insurance is even higher.It takes extra effort to seek out and write for those publications that will give you greater visibility within our company and your industry, but it's worth it.
You might have had to pay a premium in frustration when you left a previous job under unpleasant circumstances but managed to choreograph your exit on a positive and professional plane. That was worth it, too.
Continuing your education will cost you both time and money, but the value of your job insurance portfolio continues to grow.
If you've taken the time and effort to learn to communicate better as a speaker and in writing, that adds to your coverage, too.
At the same time, while these principles are being followed, the attitude we carry throughout our career has never been more important. Finding a better job takes more than just a good resume, an appropriate suit, and the right education.
Better jobs are out there for you. Whether you find and land them will have little to do with external factors. There may be some conditions beyond your control, the sort of things that have turned this world slightly crazy; foreign takeovers, leveraged buyouts, widespread illiteracy, shifting values of society, drought, floods, and "bad luck." They are to be challenged and conquered, and viewed as insurmountable obstacles to achieving what we wish to achieve.
What really happens is that the world becomes more complicated and the changes are so profound that it's hard for any of us to keep up with it. Of course, we do, one way or the other, because we must. Those who cope best become most successful, and are better able to improve their current jobs, or to locate better ones elsewhere.
