Look at all the possibilities...

How you view your job is often how you see yourself. A large part of our self-esteem is wrapped up in our jobs.

 

When meeting someone new, people often exchange business cards.

But there’s much more to someone than their job title.

 

Work can be a job or a career – it’s all in how you look at it.  A job can be a means to an end – short term to pay bills or while waiting for something else. Recruiters hope for more permanence and should develop strategies to convince someone to consider making a longer-term commitment. That’s because regardless of someone’s short-term needs, helping them develop a pathway to a more fulfilling and rewarding career can be in everyone’s best interest. This kind of conversation should start in their initial interview and continue throughout their time with your company. Showing a genuine interest in an employee helps build long-term perspectives, actively coaching them helps build long-term relationships, and ensuring they get engaged with other activities and employees helps cement those relationships. And all this affects how they see the possibilities of turning their job into a career. Helping others see more of what they’re looking at is the sign of a good friend and a great supervisor. Help others see all of their possibilities today.

 

Rasheed Ogunlaru (born 1970): United Kingdom born Life Coach, Speaker, and Author.