jeudi 25 juillet 2013

Got Drive - Where Will You Be In Five Years? A Look at Your Career Future

By Christopher Everett


The hardest fone interview questions for many of us are those dealing with career goals. Looking too keen makes you look selfish. Inadequate ambition risks making you appear unmotivated. How does one successfully answer these questions? Where do you see yourself being five or more years from now? We live in a culture of accomplishment, where the prevailing career path is we must indicate we are continually striving for more and that we as employees are never satisfied with the status quo. That leaves many individuals confused regarding how to answer this question, as we feel we've got to act more aspiring than we really are when all we need is a good stable job that we'll work hard in. Let's explore more about how to deal with these types of questions now.

It is brilliantly acceptable to say you see yourself working diligently and making the company better for your work in this position or whatever position the company sees fit to have you in. Many companies, for a variety of reasons, do not see beyond the hole this vacancy has caused and would love nothing better than to have a truthful, loyal and dedicated employee fill that position so everybody can return to do what they were hired to do to begin with. Many advanced positions involve some people proactively managing other employees. Some folk do not want to do that. If you're one who does enjoy management, simply state that you truly can see yourself doing this position long term because you enjoy the character of the work.

Recall too that there's cost to the business each time a vacancy opens. Somebody has to temporarily fill that position. Chances are they will not be as efficient in that role as a permanent employee, so there is always lost productiveness. If they're being pulled from another department, that department also suffers lost useful productivity too. Once someone is offered the job they can be expected to produce at a fraction of the rate of an experienced person, so there is yet again productivity loss there too. When some other person trains you, they aren't doing their work and there's a further productiveness loss. A stable, content and effective employee is more certain to be a productive worker.

What if you should have strong career ambitions? It is fine to claim that you'd like to see yourself with more responsibility but don't leave it at that. Be very clear to add statements that show you are not out simply for yourself. Showing that during the past you have enjoyed leading employees or collaborating with other departments adds credibility to your statements and indicates you are more than self targeted. Career ambition can infrequently work against you. Many people believe that it is a good idea to say they might love the interviewer's job or that they would be very pleased to be Manager sometime. Guess what? If you are within the same age as the individual interviewing you and that person also wants to be MANAGER, do you actually think they will worth that statement? Some might but many will not.

Another way aspiration can work against you is when the individual interviewing thinks you wish to move too far too fast. If you are continually keeping a lookout for the second-best thing, how hard are you targeting the current task? What if the medium term outlook for that corporation is for very little position unsteadiness? The interviewer could fairly assume that if you don't get what you want with them, you will soon be on the move to a company that will supply you with the opportunity you seek. Whether right or wrong, there are many folks who never hire a person smarter than themselves because anyone that is viewed as smarter is seen as - a threat. That interviewer may know of a vacancy that will soon be opening in an area that you have indicated an abiding interest in. They may need that position for themselves and your exorbitant interest in that area, while viewed as formidable by some, is seen as threatening by others.




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