Who will build career - turtle or a chameleon? And who are you, Rhino, bison, or the dragon? We offer you 9 atypical career strategies that will help you to achieve professional and personal growth.
Here's a bleak picture: five, ten years after graduation, former classmates, not shining talents, sitting tight in Executive chairs, and you still go on interviews in search of promising places. Get to know yourself? What went wrong, gradually recoverya you in their own abilities, ambitions, and finally in a happy destiny?
You really want to build a successful career, but most likely made a mistake in the way. Usually anyone who has set himself the target of a serious career position, trying to follow the popular scheme of "faster, higher, stronger". But the real success is seeking some reason only one out of ten. However, the remaining nine did not necessarily losers, as you might think. Simply, according to the classical theoretical studies human resources, they belong to other types of careerists and go the other way.
Turtle: sly
Career looks like a slow-but-steady progress without aplomb and pathos, almost invisible to others. More precisely, perceived as logical and taken for granted for working life: one year later - Deputy Deputy Director, three Deputy head, five already and the head.
Features of careerist: this type is similar to a thoughtful and thorough Buddha - he shows restraint, the ability to analyze the situation yourself, professionalism, no desire for publicity. All around are sure that he was on his place and that was always there. Motto: peace, just peace of mind.
Advantages: there is no need to jump on the heads and be active, if there is no hunting and difficult to overwork. Introverts, the more modest amongst us and initiative people can go forward with comfort, the ridge - analytical work.
A horse at full gallop
Obeying ambitions, you have to race ahead of the engine, grasping for what can and cannot work in the hands of burns, are born and die on three projects per day, the creativity continues even in the night. Of course, it often happens to stumble, but then have to get up, shake off and to go even faster... ouf!
Features of careerist: this type has a lot of energy, lightning-fast response, bright extraversion, the absolute inability to wait, to calculate and analyze. It operates under the motto: the main thing is to get involved, but we'll see. And full of optimism!
Advantages: the brave deserve the fair, and such person will quickly build a career where you want to take unceremoniously mostly working with partners, customers, competitors. For example, in the sales area.
Dragon: ambush
This scheme is a good example of how, waiting for the right moment, one can snap their fingers and turn it into your own finest hour. Very cautious, tenacious and attentive advancement was extremely rare, accurate manifestations of their talent and knowledge.
Features of careerist: cunning, clever, careful - and that says it all. His motto: better day to lose, then an hour's flight.
Advantages: fine focusing in the environment and being able to wait (sometimes for years), you can make a career literally an hour at any place and in any professional field.
Wolf: hunting
Typical single floating - any team games, only independent and careful squint eyes on the distant goal, through the storms and wind. The goal is set from the outset, after which step by step is a careful, deliberate movement to it. Coming as nearly as possible, "wolf" makes one a true jump and turns with prey in his mouth.
Features of careerist: Thrifty, strong, partly cynical type, able to maneuver, good strategist and tactician, are confident that they are alone. Professional field perceives as the battlefield. Motto: through the thorns to the stars.
Advantages: does not need to command the support and is able to make important and difficult decisions.
Hare: cross country
Imagine the panic and nervous movement - running, dancing, jumping through ever-increasing barriers. Yes and barriers are constantly moving from left to right, then the palm, then in the ravine. No time to stop and look back in this diagram you can see that vpered. Funny? But interesting and productive.
Features of careerist: artistic type, creative, willing to spontaneous actions, the game rapidly changing conditions. Problems prefer not to solve it, and go around the curve. Motto: chaos breeds life.
Advantages: this type quickly make a career in the creative fields and in new, unfamiliar, not developed by market segments.
Chameleon: a successful mimicry
Independent methodological development for career growth is not required, the main task is to keep pace with the leadership and the ruling circles, letting her and the conduct of proving that is a worthy replacement. Here important is the ability to reconcile the specific requests and to pretend that any advice from above - it is more expensive than life.
Features of careerist:
servile, sometimes flattering type, which is not alien to the sense of immense reverence for superiors. Usually takes over his leadership style and quality, and gradually turns into a double. Often or very clever or simple to ugliness. Motto: silence is Golden (literally).
Advantages: many leaders deeply appreciate the very fact of such succession of generations in the role of beacon nice to visit everyone. So with a career, while respecting the rules of the game in worship, difficulties will not occur.
Bison: upstream
The split of the organization and the withdrawal part of the team under its start - here is a typical maneuver for instant elevation in office. Of course, first comes the mutiny, then flashes a popular revolution with economic or political slogans, eventually, either manual suppresses speech, removing the instigator, or reciprocates and gives under his command a separate structure and part of the project.
Features of careerist: rebellious spirit, innovator, Explorer grandiose ideas and undisputed leader. Motto: who is not with me is against me.
Advantages: difficult to push to the masses and especially in the leadership of your great ideas, but the results are worth it - jump up is truly ambitious. Strategy Rhino - only forward.
Leo: dreams of the big jackpot
In the search and just go directly working life - I want fame, money, profitable customers, comfortable apartments with private Secretary, travel abroad, contracts, recognition at the governmental level... And flight to the moon. To stop simply impossible.
Features of careerist:
this type is Regal and charming lady, confident that deserve the best. Immediately. There are arrogance, greed, moderation in desires and great prudence. Motto: first buy, then look at it.
Advantages: never perish, because everywhere there is the advantage that you can adapt for themselves.
Rhino: ahead
Continuous through movement forward on heads, in spite of everything - that's the whole scheme. Restraining elements if present (disapproval, ethical issues), then go to total ignorance.
Features of careerist:
strong, stubborn type that would stop at nothing. On the contrary, he often puts himself in terms that are difficult to survival, and so motivates its own acceleration. Motto: the worse the better.
Advantages: nor someone else's opinion or his own doubts get in the way. Enemies and simply detractors (and have) no effect on anything. Full confidence in its own right always prevails.
Author:
Gogina So
Source:
The careerist.Roux
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