Trigger Question #100:
According to the wise ones who are not artificially intelligent, artificial intelligence is coming for your job. Just in case they really now something we don’t, maybe you should strengthen your hold on your job today.
But if you go beyond merely tightening your grip on the role you have, you could boost your career. Here’s how.
Apply for your current job. The one you have today, the one you are doing today.
How would that tighten your hold and boost your career? Well, invariably your role at work morphs into something not quite what you originally applied and interviewed for. Your job, like you, changes with time. (If your job has not changed, then your bosses have you pinned like a butterfly. If you haven’t changed, then you are clearly happy to be a pupa in a pod.)
Now, consider your job objectively. It has four parts. There is the job you applied for (as the company advertised it); the job you interviewed for (as the interviewers described it); the job you walked into (as your new boss introduced you on day one); and the job you are now doing (as it panned out to be).
Today, you know a lot about your job. That knowledge, if you know how to use it, can help you succeed starting today. Simply consider these two questions, and follow where your answers lead:
Knowing what you know about your job today, would you apply for it?
Knowing what they know about you today, would they hire you for it?
You should now have lots of ideas on how to once again become sought after by your current boss. And even by future bosses.
AI willing, that is.
Welcome to my side of the nonsense divide.
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Quote of the Moment:
“I could have kept my job, but it kept changing more than I did.” The Chief Nonsense Officer.
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