'Mindscaping' for career building 14

'The best way to predict the future is to create it.'

Abraham Lincoln

Career building and personality development are closely associated with each other. An educational degree gives us a job. But a job is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end. The end is career growth. Job is merely an entry platform. It is up to the job holder to decide what should be the scope and size of the role he wants to play in that platform.

The basic qualification and skill set which got us the job will become obsolete and with that we will also become redundant. You are aware that there is an expiry date and MRP for every medicine. After the expiry date the MRP is meaningless even though people would have purchased the medicine at a premium price.

This is also true of our skill and qualification. Our Degrees and Diploma have a expiry date! When the product which was made with our Degree and Diploma disappears from the market, our education also becomes irrelevant and we become surplus!

It is like replacing a tree or a plant which has outlived our purpose! A good gardener should update his garden. You are the gardener and the garden!

Are you re-landscaping yourself? Is your education and skill relevant today?

N C Sridharan

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