Creating Job Search Opportunities With Your Current Employer

ByMark Baber

Creating job Opportunities with your current employer.

You want to get a new job, and your first instinct is to look outside your current company. But, maybe it's your current company that can best offer you a move into a more preferred area of employment; though, you may have to motivate the decision makers so they can consider your great idea about a new job title for you. But... here are some considerations on that topic.

Such new ideas rarely survive within corporate organizations. Let's examine how you can counter these factors, and open the way for innovative new job titles.

In the current American business culture, it has become habit for new ideas to be shot down before they’ve been given any time to develop and mature. It seems to have become a part of American human nature to look first for reasons why something cannot be done, and lastly, if at all, at the merits of actually doing it. The net result is that, far from being encouraged, creativity and ingenuity, once the hallmarks of American business, are actively discouraged.

Without considering the root causes of this backward attitude, what can be done to overcome it?

In many companies, people are emerging at all levels who have a different attitude, one of offering suggestions and solutions to anticipated issues, and thereby adding value to a new ideas, especially as those ideas relate to making labor more effective. Such leaders have enough self-confidence and professional curiosity to look at the merits of a proposed new job, or product or process, and to brainstorm the possibilities, combining this idea with others, and expanding the scope or direction of the proposal. And they encourage others to give it a try.

In the early stages, emerging ideas require a considerable amount of high level intellectual and technical development. Once an idea has developed to the point where it can be shown to be viable and profitable, it will be a much simpler matter to make a compelling case for the powers that be to consider a proposal.

Naturally, it takes more than just positive thinking and self-confident generosity to change an aspect of any culture. The key to changing any prevailing sentiment or thought process, you must establish and implement an alternative. You must be a leader. Without leadership skills, with which to enlist the emotional and professional support of your peers and subordinates, you will have a very limited impact on the lifespan of innovations in your workplace. Developing a positive, efficient team, dedicated to the idea that they can make a difference, is the only way to make a difference. New ideas relating to employment can then be developed and nurtured between you and your manager until such time as they are presentable to upper management, if needed.

It is unrealistic to believe this kind of activity could be conducted in the career environment without meeting resistance. Adherence to something more than the rules of business or the sanctity of the paycheck is required to succeed. In addition to being organized and consistent, your efforts, also need to be honest and somewhat inspired. Only with that kind of serious personal dedication can you hope to reverse such a prevalent prejudice against new ideas.

You may well conclude that you would be taking a risk with your career at your present company, should you pursue a course of this nature. That is possibly true. But the rewards of success in this particular endeavor are great. To enjoy an employer that you've come to respect and still find the versatility you need in your career path is a lot to work towards. It’s an old adage because it’s true: no pain, no gain. Along with ingenuity, the other hallmark of American business is the pioneer spirit.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR JOB SEARCH

Mark Baber has 20 years experience as an Executive Search recruiter, with placement background in many industries, including: Retail, Manufacturing, Sales, Accounting/Finance, MIS/IT, Petro/Chemical, and others; enjoying client relationships with firms like WalMart, OfficeDepot, Texaco, CircleK and other national and international firms. Mark has written many articles and books on recruitment and other topics, like Marketing strategies, Sales psychology, Training and other business related subjects. He studied at the University of Texas, focusing on Communications, Marketing, and Journalism. Later became Managing Editor for "Treatment Today Magazine," a publication focused on psychology, psychiatry, counseling, and drug treatment. Mark Baber is Recruit Consultant to http://www.JobNewsRadio.com where Jobseekers access 2 Million job transactions monthly, and can submit their Resumes Free and have them distributed freely to Employers they choose by industry, vocation, City or Region. Or submit your resume directly via: http://www.recruit-services.com or http://www.mcbaber.com

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