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Even though you may hate your job, resigning can be stressful, especially if you haven’t got another job to go to.

A friend sent me an email today to say that she had commenced work with a government agency that manages superannuation for public servants and had resigned not long afterwards. She said it was scary resigning without having something else to go to, but they had made her feel unwelcome and she didn’t want to work there.

This highlights the necessity to run proper orientation programs for new starters and to make people feel valued. Hiring staff is a very expensive process no matter how it’s done; hiring staff who walk a few weeks later is a huge waste of money. Think about it, you spend the recruitment dollar twice. It makes no sense.

Anyway, my friend told me she has found another job (there are jobs out there) and is back earning an income. It’s not her first choice for what she wants to be doing, but is better than being unemployed.

What has been your experience starting a new job? Have you had good orientation and been made to feel welcome? Let us know.

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”




How many times have you had a couple of months to prepare for your new job? Never, right? You simply rocked up, signed a load of paperwork, were introduced to your work team, attended a couple of orientation sessions and put your head down and bottom up and got to work.

Barack Obama, president elect of the US has won the job, but doesn’t take over until January. What do you think he’d be doing now? My guess is he’s getting up to speed with current policies and procedures and deciding who will take place in his new government and cabinet. Then, in January, he’ll be able to hit the ground running. It’s not the orientation program most of us experience, is it?
But then, none of the jobs you or I have held were as large as this one.

Let us know what you think Obama will be doing between now and January? We’d love to know.

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

The turnover rate in business, or churn rate as it’s also known, is higher today than ever. At LinkMe, I addressed why I feel this is so when I answered a post here.

This is my comment:

“The concept of long term employment has been eroded by habitual and invariable downsizing, layoffs of staff and other demonstrations by employers that they do not value their staff as they say they do (or once did). While many firms still proclaim that, “Our staff are our most important asset and yadda, yadda, yadda ….”, it’s clear that they aren’t and the modern day employee who is well educated, well informed etc knows that it’s a load of bull.

Thus, the loyalty to an employer vice versa that once existed exists no more. The chickens have come home to roost … so to speak and now employers are feeling the brunt of decades of undervaluing employees and taking them for granted.

With an increasingly well educated and skilled workforce, workers are able to move from job to job as they please. This is different from the 70s when there were more semi-skilled and unskilled workers who could not chop and change jobs as they wished because their limited skills were not in high demand.

Today’s employees expect to be treated as though they are valued. They want some flexibility in employment to accommodate their family commitments and they want to enjoy their work. If they don’t get what they want, they move on.

Who can blame them?”

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

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Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

As a result of the current global economic crisis, all the indicators for employment are grim. However, the slump has not affected all businesses and so there are still some pockets of activity for job seekers.

It’s true that numbers of organisations are shedding staff, however, well run organisations should have the right number of people for the job. If you are in a well run organisation, the chances are, you will still have a job at the end of this downturn. Most government organisations will remain unaffected, although the NSW Government has said it will shed 5,000 jobs by natural attrition in the next few years.

At the other end, there are still regular advertisements appearing for jobs in the new shire councils within the Northern Territory. The irony being that while some organisations are trying to reduce expenditure by dumping staff, other organisations are desperate for staff.

There’s a few messages here:

1. If you are with an employer who is unlikely to shed staff, it might be better to dig in and ride out the current recession
2. Should you still be looking for a job, look for those jobs in pockets where employment growth is strong
3. Remember survival rule one: don’t give your job the flick until you have another job

We’ve had these recessions/slumps before and we’ll have them again. Ultimately, everyone survives as they come and go.

I hope your passage through the current economic crisis will be as painless as possible.

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

If you’re unemployed and looking for a job, but having trouble finding one, why not consider the Australian Defence Force? (Or, if you live elsewhere, consider the military in your own country).

While a military career doesn’t appeal to everyone, the training and experience you gain in the services is excellent. They have literally thousands of job options from support positions to operational positions. You get to travel and make hundreds of friends in your own age group.

I spent six years in the Royal Australian Air Force and a couple of years in the Australian Army Reserve and found that it put me in good stead for the rest of my life. Because I have an Air Force bias, I called by the RAAF site today and found they have some interesting games.

Why not visit? Try some of the games and see whether a new career in the Australian Defence Force may be for you. You’ll have to be smart, fit and willing to go through a tough training regime. Hey, but you can do it!

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

If you think you’re stupid and nobody in the world will employ you, you’re probably right; if you think every employer is against you and you’re a victim of their prejudice, you’re probably right too.  The way you see yourself is the way the world responds to you. 

I’m fed up hearing people, especially in Australia where there is so much opportunity, whining about the raw deal they get in life because nobody will give them a job. The reality is that nobody is going to give you anything. You have to earn it. If that hasn’t yet dawned on you, then you are an idiot.

It’s true. In any society there is a small number of people who, because of genuine disability, are and always will be unemployable. My heart goes out to those people. As a society, we do what we can to provide special workshops and other support for them. That’s as it should be in a civilised society.

However, if you are able bodied and functionally intelligent, then it is your responsibility to make yourself employable. You won’t do it by sticking metal objects through your nose, in your eyebrows or anywhere else visible, or choosing to cover your body with tatoos. You won’t do it if you don’t make an effort to educate and skill yourself. Nobody else can do that for you … like birth and death, you have to do it yourself.

My son is 33 and was born profoundly deaf with a fist full of other impairments caused by rubella (German Measles). He has a relatively low level of education because he had difficulty hearing and subsequently understanding classroom instruction. Despite that, his literacy and numeracy levels are quite good and, you know what, he’s never been unemployed. I’ll say that again: he’s never been unemployed.

The type of jobs he has held are at the lower end of the salary scale, but he has always had a job somewhere. He’s had considerable difficulty with some employers because of his lack of hearing, but when he leaves one job, he finds another. Do you know why?

Much to his credit, he doesn’t see himself as a victim. Sure, he’s had his off days and been pissed off that he’s been born with physical impairments, who wouldn’t, but he sees himself as a contributing member of the community. He sees himself employed. Some others with less physical impairment live on a disability pension. Not him. That’s not how he sees himself.

There is now an overwhelming amount of evidence that we are largely masters of our own destinies. Scientists have proven that our thoughts affect the water we drink, the flowers that surround us, our physiology and at some level, the universe we inhabit. Although not yet scientifically provable, there is a large volume of evidence that our thoughts also create our experiences; think success and succeed. Think failure and fail. While the way this works is incomprehensible to us, the principle is so simple it’s incredible.

If you see yourself as a victim in the job market or indeed anywhere else, you can change your world by changing the way you think. As I was accustomed to saying to my students, “You have two choices in life, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Why not choose to be happy?”

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”

PS: If you’d like to learn more, see some of the Mind Power Books or download a free copy of Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich.