Now to my Achilles heel, Job search. In my view one of the
major reason for lack of my personal growth is that I’m very bad in job
searching. Even after around 10+ years of working experience. I’m still in my
third job only. The story is very simple.
1)
First job – Campus placement from college
itself. (duration 1.5 yrs)
2)
Second job – Need to come back to my hometown due
to family reasons. One of my senior from college was already in that particular
company. He called me; arranged an interview which was more of the formality
and I was selected. (duration 6 yrs)
3)
Third job – After six years in my second job. I
was looking for better growth prospects as my current employer was a small proprietary
based company with limited growth opportunities. One of my batch mate was in a
company in Gurgaon who was looking for candidates (same story repeated, An
interview which was more of a formality and I was in) (duration 4 yrs and still
counting)
In both the companies (second and third), I got good recognition.
Some training abroad and best employee award as a proof. But my problem lies somewhere
else. In today’s scenarios and my friend circle is proof of that. The quickest
path of growth is through job hopping. And I’m hopeless as that. My old
fashioned method of working very hard at a same company does not bring up
required dividends. And that is the reason that I’m lagging behind.
There are some other missing parts of this jigsaw puzzle too
like having an unorthodox degree and unorthodox line. But still the major share
of blame lies with me only.
My experience shows very clearly that the easiest way of
landing very good job is through networking. And due to very shy, sober and
introvert nature. I’ve been very bad in this.
Secondly again due to this nature only. I’m not very
aggressive in constantly looking out for jobs and also not very confident in
facing interviews.
That was one of major reasons for my joining toastmasters.
My last experience shows that If you don’t move out of
companies that are not doing great in 3-4 years. Then you can get stuck very
badly.
Since I’ve already reached that point and moreover my company
is also having some serious issues due to merger. I have to change job lest I’ll
be in a very depressing situation.
That sums up why one of my major goals for this year is to
find a new job.
As with all my other goals. I’m also going to make and
follow a plant to achieve this goal as below.
1)
Competitors
2)
Engineering consultants
3)
Placement consultants
4)
Networking
5)
Entrepreneur
6)
Higher education
7)
Technical skills /3D modeling
8)
Communication – mock interview
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