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Re-Engineering of Career in the Time of COVID19.


by Muhammad Salman Khan.

In March 2020 here in Pakistan and surrounding countries of South East Asia and other regions of the world, governments announced their policies to prevent and control the pandemic of Coronavirus and almost begin with the lockdowns in cities or in strategic areas.

That was a completely unexpected event, no one was ready for it, especially the progressive employees or those who were very near in time of request for their annual increments or revision in salary packages. Now many employees in shocked and disrupted, that’s a wakeup call to leave the comfort zone, control your personal expenditures and use your self-assessment skills with the big questions and professionally make your skillset more strengthen. That makes you able to be more focused and work with more devotion in your industry.

But be optimistic this is an opportunity. Yes, the pandemic has increased the uncertainty and caught us red handily unprepared i.e. psychologically, financially, and infrastructural and the situation presently is threatening. We need to be the focus on all the options and strategic alliances that help us to save our career and to support us in building strong skillsets for a long time.

There are the following steps that help you in the re-engineering and re-innovation of a Career in the time of Coronavirus.

1.         Leave your Comfort Zone as early as possible.

2.         Develop the Strategy to work more progressively and efficiently.

3.         Embrace the Pandemic Period.

4.         Investment in Your Career Project.

5.         Work on your Contacts.

6.         Identify your new Career and talk about it.

According to these Steps Pandemic is a wakeup call to leave the traditional approach of working and adopt the modern approach with new mentors who are progressive and with new moderate success stories. Then for renovating in the career we need to develop the progressive strategy to work more efficiently, without learning new knowledge and improvement in an innovative skill set that is not possible.

That’s the time, to embrace the pandemic period and to cultivating knowledge, skills, resources, and relationships until you’ve got strong new legs to walk on in exploring a new career. As we are observing people are taking training classes and devotedly working on different startup ideas. We can call it portfolios investment approach, like the common businessmen and industrialists, are doing and investing their wealth in different portfolios.

The second last step to bring a change in career and reengineering it to achieve the new horizons and to use your personal contacts and relationships and talk to mentors and professional friends, colleagues and seniors and identify the pros and cons of your new planning for this change in career to accomplish your new dreams to be more successful.

We are thankful to Herminia Ibarra, for her blog and books which helps us a lot in the writing of this blog. She is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEADand Harvard Business School faculties. She is the author of Act like a Leader, Think like a Leader (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015) and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for reinventing your career (Harvard Business Review Press, 2003.

 

 


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