Corporate work-life can be very unpredictable and demands constant performance and keeping on your toes. You may find yourself lagging in the rat race if you don't watch out.
Following are some signs or rather warning signals that your career may not be exactly looking up.
Sign 1: You are doing the same things day in and day
out. Work has become drudgery and you are going through the motions
mechanically.
When you are not enjoying your
job, not growing or learning, you are at a professional dead end. Monotony and
routine are part of the corporate work-life, but within the work structure and
your job profile, you must enjoy what you do. You must have some scope for
value addition to your knowledge and skills. In plain words, your career must
be going somewhere. If you have reached
the end of the road, better watch out!
Sign 2: People
reporting to you are now either in the same level, or are reporting to other
people. A sure-shot sign that you are stagnating in your job is, when your
juniors get upgraded to your ranks or get their reporting structures changed.
It indicates the lack of faith management has on you. So you are not growing,
everybody else is.
Sign 3: Other
colleagues are being selected to undertake key assignments and projects. When opportunities for proving
your worth in the organization arise, and other names crop up instead of yours,
it is a sure-shot danger signal. Just being involved in your job
responsibilities is not enough; you must have opportunities for performing in
diverse, cross-functional assignments.
Sign 4: There are talks of restructuring and “trimming the fat” in the organization, and your name has cropped up. In
order to survive in a tough economy, most organizations routinely evaluate and
restructure departments. Mostly support functions are the first ones to be
hived off or outsourced to a third party. If you are in a support function like
administration, tele-calling, market research, HR, or IT support, be prepared
to face the axe, if your department is seen as extraneous or non-effective.
Sign 5: No significant contribution has been made by you to either the company bottom-line, or
towards increasing the operational efficiency of any department or process. If
you are being seen as a non-performer, be prepared to face the axe soon. No
organization is willing to tolerate non-performance or slackness, and people
who are under-performing are seen as deadwood.
Sign 6: It
had been years since you have learnt a new skill or updated your qualifications. In today’s dynamic
corporate scenario, it is not only preferable, but rather vital that you keep
updating your skills and knowledge. Multi-tasking is a reality now, and for
that, you need to learn continuously. If you are still sitting complacently
with outdated skills, then it is warning bells for you.
Sign 7: He was
satisfied reporting to office on time, doing the work assigned to him, and
leaving the office at 6 p.m. Such work behavior was acceptable even a
couple of decades back, but in today’s 24/7 work culture, you need to be
totally involved in your work. When deadlines are near, and projects need to be
completed on time, you cannot work by the clock. If you
are uncomfortable working long hours, you can opt to work from home. But
working by stipulated office hours is a thing of the past.
Also, if you are passive at work,
doing only what is expected out of you, you might as well give up all hopes of
career advancement. Fortune favours the brave, and the corporate world favours
those with initiative and drive.
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