How to Build a Career in the Present Economic Climate or Start a New One and be Successful.
In these dire days of job uncertainty throughout the world it is not enough that you have done a particular job for so many years, you need to possess even more skills than you already have in order to stand out from the rest of the workforce and give you the edge when it comes to who stays and who goes.
Businesses these days want multi-skilled workers who can move from one place to another within the company and still perform well. How you go about gaining these extra skills needed by today’s businesses is the million dollar question.
Sure you can go to college or back to school to learn these new skill sets but be honest who has the time or money to do that these days, business wants instant results not one year on or even longer. They may commend you for going back to college to learn but they will not keep you on if push comes to shove and people need to be shed from the business. Bottom line is if you cant do the job then hit the road. Harsh but true.
So the only other thing you can do is to acquire these skills online from somewhere. There are tons and tons of companies offering courses in every subject you can think of and they offer tutor feedback and all sorts of great things for you to help your learning experience. However these courses usually run over a set period of time and not at your pace. Those that do run at your pace are geared mainly for the slower learners to take a little longer to learn rather than the person who has grasped the course and got going faster than normal.
So what can you do about it then?
Well you can learn online from membership sites which have all of the information there for you all of the time so if you are a quick learner you can follow the course and finish it far earlier than most average people can.
Some may not offer formal qualifications from them but at the end of the day your employer wants results and action and if you can PROVE that you can do a certain task well that is often all the employer wants to know. Let’s face it there are so many different qualifications out there now it is very difficult for an employer to even know what benchmarks have been used to judge results and therefore give the qualification in the first place.
I know from personal experience many times that the skills needed to do a particular job are very apparent early on if you give the person a chance to show you they have them. In my field, catering I can spot if someone is trained or not and more to the point what level they are trained to very early on simply by getting them in and asking them to cook for a couple of days.
This approach certainly weeds out the pretenders who SAY they have a qualification, and may well have but simply cannot do the job.
I think most employers these days would rather have someone competent in a job than someone who SAYS they are competent in a job.
By learning online you can pick up the relevant knowledge and practice this at your workplace whilst you are going about your normal routine but when it comes to the boss asking if someone can do a particular job, you are in a position to show them you can do it even thought you may not have the qualification to show that.
I have learnt many new skills off the internet on membership sites for my trade in such diverse areas as human resources and housekeeping which enabled me to progress to manager level for 4 units looking after catering and housekeeping in the healthcare sector, even though I only had catering qualifications.
The point is that there are websites and membership sites out there offering the opportunity to increase your knowledge on a wide variety of subjects and if you want to continue in the workforce for a long period of time you will have to change your mindset and start to learn new things to give you the edge.
If you want to learn more about membership site learning for the future than visit my website where you will find a myriad of information awaiting you.
George Faulkner owns the website http://www.careerbuildersclub.info and this website gives you all you need to know about building either a completely new career or expanding your existing one. Visite http://www.careerbuildersclub.info for more information. Fill in the opt in form and you will go right there.
