Yes, I know I know. I have slacked of loads! The last posting was in April. :p Life has been real busy. In fact, it was too many stuff on my plate to be taken care of. It has come to a point where I was going like a mechanical machine. But life will always have a way to give a jolt to your senses, make you pause and think.

A few days ago, I got an email from one of the candidate whom I have placed in one of the reputable MNCs. It was just a two liner kind of thing but it spelled something really unpleasant. The company had a re-org exercise and now her position is made redundant. As such, her service is no longer required and thus she is given a month notice according to the employment term. That’s it.

Many times, I can’t help but have this distasteful suspicion & doubt of the real purposes/objectives behind all these so called management decisions. It is so often that shortly after all these management decisions that they started to hire for  the same position again, be it out in the open or doing it quietly. Is this what is being taught by the management school?
Oh well, bitch all we want. That will be something that we are going to see more & more frequent in market. There will not be such a thing call “job security” which is at the very core of our parents’ industrial era. In this information age, things are dynamic thus you and I better be all ready for the change of time.

I can hear many objections at this point, protesting the unfairness, questioning what I mean by “be ready”. Well, generally, most individuals in the labour force (yes that is you & me) are not ready for a break in our career, be it force to or voluntary. Reason being: our unwise way of financial management. Majority can hardly survive two to three months forward without a job. Doesn’t that say something about the financial state of our society & generation? Well, financial literacy & fundamentals are too lengthy a topic to be included here.

On the other aspect of being ready involves a proper plan of career direction with the understanding of how the market has evolved. General observation is majority of the labour force today, right from junior executives right up to some senior/top management, do not plan their career. Most have actually just float along the big river of market & jobs. Many will probably protest that they do have career plan, career direction. But what would it be like? Too many have only an ideal in mind where the market doesn’t support thus they were the 1st to go when the axe comes down.

I hope we will bear the above in mind & be vigorous about taking care of ourselves, instead of giving that power over to the employers of today because job security if non existence in their vocabulary anymore.
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