When you’re stuck in a job you’re not happy with, it’s only natural to complain to the people you’re closest to.
Believe me. I did it.
A LOT!
I would constantly threaten to quit my job, complain about how miserable I was, and lament over how awful things were and what few options I had. Now I realize it wasn’t really that bad but at the time it felt pretty awful. I was lost.
If you and your organization have decided to develop job competency models or a competency-based human resource system, your plan should include answering three key questions that will affect the outcome of the project.
1. What resources do you have to build your models?
There are many ways to do competency models. Some are complex, time-consuming and expensive. Others are not. The trade offs have to do with validation and thoroughness, although the less complex approaches can include a validation step.
A lack of communication and knowledge for a blue-collar worker in the workplace can be normal for the complacent individual. Arriving daily at work and just going through the motions, not paying attention to what is happening around him, he is missing pertinent information about his job and company.
When this individual does not receive the necessary information, he is the first to complain that nobody told him. Actually it is his own fault for not receiving the communication. This is happening in a lot of companies all over the U.S.
I have to admit something. I’ve been nothing less than overwhelmed by
the unpacking, fixing, cleaning up, arranging, and decorating in our
new home.
Let’s just say I haven’t been too pleasant to be around.
I look around and see boxes that haven’t been touched yet. “Stuff”
that still doesn’t have a home. And of course, things I want to
change and fix in every room.
And I’ve gotten stuck. I’m no longer making any progress.
Early in our careers we were taught that a resume should be one page only – and at the beginning of a career that is an appropriate length. However, once you have some experience to display, the standard length of a resume is two pages.
There are a number of good reasons – other than that it is the expected length – including not overwhelming the potential reader. A longer resume is rarely read, it just seems like too much to plow through, particularly since there are lots of resumes to plow through.