How Lebron James Shows Us It Is Time For A New Job Search

How LeBron James shows us it is time for a new job searchThis is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on CategoriesThere are starting to be a fair number of surveys out there that say people will start looking for new jobs in droves “once the economy gets better.” I don’t know what “better” means and I personally think this is as good as the economy is going to get for another year or two, but whatever. The real issue shouldn’t be “looking for a new job once the economy gets better,” but “when should I be looking for a new job?” Recession or not, one should look for a new job when it is time to look for a new job.But when is it time to start a new job search?I’ ve advocated for a long time on this site as well as my book that you need to consistently determine to the best of your ability when your job will end. All jobs end. Either the company will rearrange the job, or eliminate it altogether or you will be bored silly doing the work. Time to move on before the moving on is forced upon you.For example, if you were consistently thinking through when your job might end and you happened to be working as a season ticket salesperson for the Miami Heat, you might have thought the world was your oyster. Then LeBron James signs and four weeks later, you are out of a job.Yet, the signs were all there as season ticket sales went through the roof once the rumors started about the possible signing of the basketball star. You might not have found a new job yet, but you certainly would have the alarm bells going off and had your resume out there â€" giving you a big advantage over your coworkers who thought they had it made with the Heat with the new s eason and all the star-ry possibilities. In retrospect, all those nice salespeople were whistling in the dark.Just for the record, I think the firing of those 30-people, no matter how well spinned, is yet another corporate sign of how little corporations care about those that help them achieve their goals. The Miami Heat management is simply the latest. Too bad it is all about winning and the owners (or shareholders) while everyone else is just a tool for getting there. Thirty jobs? Peanuts.While there are many companies who think longer term and greatly care about their employees, you need to be thinking about how long your job will last. If you are not, you won’t. Last.There are reasons to stay with a company compared to leaving, even if it is time to change jobs. You can change jobs in larger companies and still stay with the company. But all of us tend to lose a little perspective with the pressures of the day, a boss that is driving us slightly crazy and coworkers that make u s go nuts. But perspective is needed so the search makes good sense for you and your career.Here are a few perspectives on staying with a company:The critical piece here is to know the work you do best, how you do your work the best, and what environment best matches up to your best. If you do not understand this, you will never get happiness from your corporate experience. If you do understand how you do your best work and consistently analyze how long a job will last, you will be light years ahead of your coworkers. Especially if your coworkers are jumping for joy at the signing of LeBron James and not realizing the signing was the death of their job.This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment securi ty. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rights reserved.