So, you are happy with your current job. You are doing so well. Everyone praises you. Is that making you complacent? Have you stopped looking at the future?Are you too secure in your current profile? The answers are best known to you.
The answers will tell you where you are headed. May be the ‘T-junction’ in your career is right ahead. May be you see a vision you don’t want to be part of.
So, my humble request to you is to take a deep breath, find a nice place and time and evaluate your contribution in your current job.
This is the key to know how far you will go. The current job is a responsibility entrusted on you. It says (may be) your contribution justifies the position. You must contribute more than the organisation’s investment in you. The investment is more than just your salary but also the cost of amenities and training.
Simple, if you are earning Rs 66,000 per month and have a 22 working day month, in an organisation making 30% PPBIT. Your NETT contribution has to be INR 9,000 per day. ( (66,000/22)*2* (1+.3+.2)) or simple terms 1,96,000 per month.
This is bare minimum to justify your hanging in there. I
believe that is not what you want. So read on.
You are responsible for contributing to company’s growth- definitely much in excess of the apparent and hidden cost. Remember, you are as good as your last assignment. You are secure only if the organisation sees you punching above your weight now and in future.
Thinking of the future, the year-end is near and people are eyeing the slots in the more flattening organisational pyramid. Oh boy, how is life changing.. And you want to be part of the growth. You want to earn much more.
It’s simple, you need to demonstrate the capability to contribute more. Much more. That is the only way to increase your value. It is true even if you are looking for a job enhancement, new assignment or a change.
The organisations is really evaluating your capacity to contribute. It is something only you can do. Only you can change the equation. Only you can continuously redefine your utility to the organisation. Only you can continuously work toward enhancing your apparent value and your contribution to the system.
Remember, like anywhere else ‘Perception is truer than the reality’ So, go ahead and invest in yourself. In today’s world you need to be constantly educated. You need to keep your self-relevant and future proof. You need to be thinking about yourself as a business and a brand.
Look around you, Are you in a category or market that is shrinking? Are you in a place where a job is there in the future? Or have you invested your future in a job that is disintegrating with time?
These are tough questions that only you can ask and only you can have the answers you will believe in. It is never too late. There is no better time than now. Go ahead revalidate and expand your capacities. It will help in creating capabilities to contribute in the business. While selecting the new capabilities evaluate how relevant they are. They should be useable to you in your current or future assignments. You owe it to yourself, not to be complacent. Not to be too comfortable with the current status and not to be worried of the changes.
You should be preparing for the next assignment that you so badly want. You should be demonstrating capabilities in the identified desired in-demand field. You should be creating the examples that you can enumerate in few days time.
It is your life and you can only Fire – your – ambitions.
First published at mxmindia.com under the weekly column KOTMARTIAL
