Sometimes I often hear from my friends… my company is not developing me or This Company or my boss doesn’t care with my career… Well… in my opinion, career is not depend on the company or our boss, but it depend on our self. Never let others decide for you, what your career is… Never!
Our career development is depending on our self. Why? Because we cannot influence how the companies develop their employee career, they have their own systems or their own culture how to promote employees, some of the company promote base on competency, base on seniority or based on the good relationship with the boss, there is nothing wrong with it. So it is our decision which system or culture that suitable for our career.
For me, we must always focus on our human capital development, does our current job give you more knowledge and more experience that improving your self? Because without that, I believe that our career will stuck. Our career will improve if our self is improving and we can produce more. It doesn’t depend on the company you’re working. If you have competency and it’s proven, I believe we can choose where we want to develop our career.
We must focus on the thing that we can control, and that is our focus to learn and gain more experience in our current work. I suggest that we also have a paradigm that our career is company borderless. We must see all the opportunity to develop our career not only in our current company.
See more, develop our self and always give our best. I believe if we focus on that our career will be developed. Believe in your self and believe that “God is not sleeping” so there will be reward for us if we do our best, if it’s not from our current company there will be from others. Just decide what career do you want and go for it…
Sorowako, 25 February 2010
