Expectations from career builders

   EXPECTATIONS FROM CAREER BUILDERS

We have had a look at what a career builder expects to achieve, but... what do others expect from a true career builder? These might be some of the answers:

• Loved ones expect the career builder to be happy with his or her career. More than material achievements of any kind, and even more than a high social status, they hope for the career builder to actually achieve happiness and personal realization.

• Employers expect the career builder to have that special “plus” making both him or her and the company progress more than if they would have chosen someone else instead.

• Employees or team members expect their boss to progress and make their department for important and respected. They expect to grow and climb as a team, and a career builder leading them is a key element in that equation. If the career builder is actually leading his or her own small business, the employees will have a closer relation and will hope for the project go well in order to keep their jobs and improve their salaries. Therefore a lot of pressure stands on the career builder’s shoulders.

• Career advisors expect the people they coach to become real career builders and to take the long-term career objectives as a natural part of their daily routine.

• Society (that is, the market) expects this high standing minority to show the imagination, creativity, ambition and leadership to build their own careers and thus contribute to the general well being. Read more