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I see employability as a trait inherent to me. How I spend my time building my skill set, growing and maintaining relationships, and honing my story is what I
by vibrio 7y ago
I see employability as a trait inherent to me. How I spend my time building my skill set, growing and maintaining relationships, and honing my story is what I see as my employability. I own it. It mitigates the risk from my choice to work in a role that provides me with a high level of Job Insecurity.
I see job insecurity as something inherent to the company and/or role within a company. Such as being at a small company which focuses on the development of a novel technology and/or a product in an untested market. Investors and strategy partners may not provide funding one day and -poof’- Job is gone. One goal of my job to influence the investor and partners, but I don’t own it. I make the choice to endure job insecurity because I believe in the strategy and see it and an outsized opportunity.
Also I've never had a 'secure job', but I've assumed in most cases it is naive to believe ones job is secure, either big company or small company. Stuff can happen quickly and arbitrarily. Just what I've observed.
And based on the data in the OP study, I'd rather be employable and unemployed than unemployable and employed. This is what drove my initial comment.
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