What should be your job targets?

Our major life goals revolve around career, job, ambition, passion and if achieved a dream job, then job satisfaction or a piece of content. I want or wish people should start focussing on priorities and preferences. Do not ever set it low or say 'yes' when it has to be 'no' just because it has good perks involved. 

When you say you are not getting the desired profile, make sure your target is right, you are presenting yourself as an eligible candidate, you read the job description carefully, you do the homework before heading out for the interview and so on. Starting from hunting a job as a fresher or an experienced one, having a straight and clear objective in your mind is a necessity.
Let's suppose when I go for an interview, I watch out for the ambiance of the organization, try to strike a conversation or ask questions with the interviewer, try to grasp more about my profile. This is obviously apart from negotiation and some common queries. Remember this is a two-way affair and it should be like this only.
I would like you to read one such encounter of a horrible interview here.
Stories of walking away from an interview have such larger views these days and I will take this as a positive sign. People are now being analytical and understanding what they want from a job. And, yes it is a good sign.
I have been with a company for 3 years and the experience was good enough for me to learn and explore and grow. Let me say there is one kind of employee and the phase of job life would be-

• You have been hired for a good position
• You work well. What is given is accomplished and always on time!
• You made a comfort zone in your job and start expecting good results out of it
• You even compete with others and stand out.
• At the end of it, you are being targetted to kick out or someone whom they don't require

What made this happen and the answer is your attitude towards a job!

I will take another example and you will start realizing the difference-

• You have been hired for a good position
• You work well. what is given is accomplished and always on time!
• You don't make a comfort zone and start to target your goals like for example do you want to have a long tenure in the organization or want to go into management or want promotion in the same job profile. Likewise, start working on it and that includes saying it what you want. This is important and we are going to discuss this later in the article.
• You compete with only targetted goals set above
• At the end of it, either you get what you want or you separate your ways with the company

What do you want? being kicked out or being realistic...

I said being realistic because that's the phase of life if you know what I mean.

you target -> work on it -> either get it or don't get it

It is the middle of the section that results in job satisfaction. Believe me, if you target goals and work on it, you would never say 'I am not satisfied with my job'. Do not consider your job as a preference because it is your work and ethics make it strong enough.

Stop Chasing

 I don't know where this concept came from but for me, it is completely irrelevant. Stop mixing up competition and chasing. Now, this is important. Let's first read out these points-

• if you keep on doing what you already know, after some time you will be like know-it-all kind of an employee and think you are an asset(while you are or maybe) but at the same time there will be another employee who is currently exploring and given more chances than you because he does not stop growing. While you grow within your limits, somebody else is learning new software, skills, language or anything relevant to the job profile is growing as an individual.
• Organizations prefer people who prefer themselves.
• You must be thinking about an employee who does nothing but still makes his presence on the job. There are reasons and one that we think is he has got some good networking skills and the other which manager reveals. "See we need these kinds of people too so that we can report someone negative at the time of appraisal because it makes our report good". Both of them are true.

Stop playing chasing game and for that, your goal should be-

1. individual growth which ultimately leads to project growth
2. observe what others are upto and not copy them to come ahead
3. analyze your mistakes time to time
4. often seek feedback from your senior that makes a serious approach
5. say what you want to your manager and does not think he knows (well he know but he has a point that you never said)

Stay focused and then you will see the true joys of having a smooth LINE OF WORK.

Let me know what you have to say about your job experiences and what annoys you the most. Is it the blind chase or some less deserving employee getting the bigger role or something else and anything else?