"Tips To Use While You Are Still Working To Prepare You For The Words: “You're fired…"
He was recently fired from his job at the New York office due to various disagreements with clients, system integrators and also internally within his own organization. He shared his lessons learned after getting fired.
7 Lessons I Learned After Getting Fired From A Job
1. Doing the thing is important. But more important is that the world should know that you are the person who DID the job -Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, an international authority in personality profiling and self branding.
In today's world, self-branding matters more than any other form of talent, not least of all because the mass market is unable (or unwilling) to distinguish between branding and talent.
2. Identify your "frienemies". These are the people in the workplace (and we all know them) who will act like your friends, get confidential information or negative things you think about your boss from you, and then go straight to your boss or someone above you to report what you have told them
3. Cut the cord with the old workplace or team more quickly than you may want to. Once you start at a new company, you must leave the old company and the feelings that are tied to the people and events there behind, so you can fully focus on the present. This is especially true if you are working at a new job in the same industry.
4. Build a strong network within and outside of your company. In this age, your success depends on how well you are connected and the pull of your network. If you have good brand value & you are well-connected, you can usually get a job if you get fired.
The world's knowledge is too large to be stored anywhere; hyperconnectors point us in the right direction. Anybody can upload a video on YouTube or tweet, but only a few can direct us to the videos or tweets we want to see. So, hyperconnectivity is must for today's success.
5. You might have the technical talent to make things happen, but you need to know how to align yourselves with others.
6. Get in touch with key stakeholders occasionally to get feedback and discuss your plan of action, because change is automatic, but it is not necessarily progress. These people can help you to progress. Your career success depends on your ability to offer something new: new solutions for existing problems, new services and products, new ideas, etc.
Today's war for talent is the war for identifying, developing, and retaining true change-agents. Change-agents are hard to find, hard to manage, and hard to retain.
7. If you don’t get fired at least once, you’re not trying hard enough. This isn’t quite true yet, but it is becoming truer. As the pace of change in business increases, the chances of having a placid career are receding. And if, in this period of rapid change, you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.
What to do when you get fired?
(1) You should create a LinkedIn profile and start creating network. Click the link to read my article on LinkedIn training course.(2) Find your unique experience and try to emphasize the value you can add to a company.
(3) Keep a positive attitude and join some non-profit group to keep yourself busy and help you enjoy life.
(4) Build new skills or hone your existing skill.
In summary, the future of YOU depends on your ability to be a brand, a change agent, and a link to useful information. There will be problems, and you will need to address the problems by separating the problem from the person.
Wrongful termination is not a rare phenomenon, and you should learn from it before you approach any unemployment lawyers for unfair dismissal or workplace harassment.
But your best plan of action is not to simply fight back, but to be prepared to move on, should the situation arise. Using the principals I have given you, you will be fully ready to quit or get fire - so you don't have to be afraid to get a pink slip.
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