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Can You Shoulder The Risk Of Job Hopping?

2010/12/11 13:54:00 60

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In life, you will encounter many new opportunities and challenges, which opportunities you should grasp and what opportunities you should give up. The problem itself is confusing enough, but in such a complex and changeable situation, it becomes more complicated.

Over the past few years, we have seen too many senior white-collar job hopping, for rights, money, and more stock options.

No one cares too much about what will happen in the future? Some people bet on the management team or technical strength of the company. Some people only get a higher salary. Some people get an enviable salary once, while others can only shrink from the company's promise and shrink until it becomes worthless waste paper.

Now, are you more visionary when you are making career choices, or do you itch to jump to the next big?

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Go in.

The following is the story of Dana Harris.

Make a choice

Mr. Harris has recently been appointed Vice President of global sales for Copernus company. Copernus is a new company based in Cincinnati, making software for collaborative business projects.

Before that, Mr. Harris was employed by a eRoom company in Massachusetts, a large company on the market. By the way, two years ago, the company attracted Mr. Harris partly because the company promised stock options.

When Mr. Harris decided to leave the company, the application of stock options seemed to be approaching when the company was applying for the listing process. So did Harris go mad? Harris himself did not think so.

He explained that I had been forty years old and had been sitting in management positions. My goal was to be able to engage in a cutting-edge technology, but he explained, "I will not be cutting edge for the frontier."

I want to do this according to the trend of value, and this is constantly changing. "

Eight years ago, Mr. Harris also left the Coopers & Lybrand consultancy to achieve greater value.

In this company, he is a consultant in knowledge management and business process reengineering. He likes the challenge of every problem.

But at the end of the day, he felt that it was better to deal with customers' suggestions than to satisfy them.

He said, "I am tired of listening to myself.

Chasing opportunity

In Harris's search for greater value, he joined in electronics.

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The company, Interleaf, is a manager responsible for strategic partners.

However, due to the limitations of the company's products, he can only provide a limited range of services.

When two of Interleaf's managers jumped to PC Docs Group, a company that he thought could produce more widely used products, Mr. Harris accepted the invitation of the company as a sales manager.

In the process of dealing with customers later, Harris began to realize that the real opportunity lies not in document management, but in helping businesses create and use those documents.

"The experience I learned from working with clients guided me to the next step," he said. "How can we solve the problems we created by knowledge management technology? I am attracted by products that can solve this problem."

This seems to be a dangerous idea of career management, but for Mr. Harris, this is very meaningful. In the technology related business, the market is constantly changing and being eliminated is always a great threat.

"I feel comfortable turning to a place where I can see the value."

He said, "but I am very cautious about it."

This idea brought him to eRoom company in January 1999.

He learned about the company from his former boss and mentor, and quickly integrated into it. He was appointed regional sales manager and quickly promoted the regional sales director with the expansion of sales force.

Mr. Harris would not tell him where he was.

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But he said employees of eRoom had stock options, and if they were successful last autumn, these options could be cashed.

But in the process of business collaboration, Harris finds that the whole team is becoming more and more vertical. You should not only work with people within the organization, but also work with people outside the organization.

"It's very reasonable to happen in the world of the Internet," he reasoned.

"Existing software can solve the problem of paction, order, pportation and payment.

But how can we share ideas with people outside the organization and make decisions about what we need to do in the future?

He has not seen any system that allows smooth implementation.

At this time, a recruitment agency began contacting him and introducing Copernus to him.

Obviously, the attraction of this opportunity is not to advance to the forefront of technology. Copernus gives him a dream, which is coveted for a long time, but it can not be realized quickly in eRoom..

"For me, it's very important for my next job to get into the core management."

He said.

At this time, the company's listing is approaching, and the economic downturn and the market's bad environment for the new Internet companies are still waiting to make a profit. Harris said: "wandering around, waiting for a fortune to make a profit is not what I want to do. I realize that I want more."

Of course, money matters. It's always important. "

Now, ERooms has not yet completed its listing, but Harris's position has made him a big step forward.

Mr. Harris said, "if I think this is not helpful to personal and career development, I will not stay here.

It is indeed risky to jump to a small company to develop. When making such decisions, individuality, knowledge of the market, technology and direction are more important than salary and welfare.

If you judge correctly, you will be profitable. "

People are becoming more rational, but this does not mean that there can be no new ideas.

If you can see the value of it, Mr. Harris said, it is not difficult to make a correct career choice.