Today I want to talk about five things that you have to do if you want to
future-proof your career nowadays there is no such thing as a totally safe and
secure job there are so many rapid changes happening in the economy
developments in AI and automation and in addition to that the lifespans of people
are getting longer and longer and all of those things combined can lead to a job
landscape that will look very different in five ten fifteen years from now so
future proofing your career means that you shape your career in such a way that
you always stay relevant and prepared for any of these changes if you're
curious to know more about why it's important to future-proof your career
then you might want to check out one of my other videos that I made earlier
which I linked up here and the first one is to build up more than one income
stream or multiple income streams and of course there are people who would prefer
to just stick to one job and one career throughout their entire life it might be
the case that you totally love your job as well as the company that you are
working for right now but at the same time there is no guarantee that this
company will be able to provide you with a job forever and one way to do this is
by having a portfolio career a portfolio career is a career where you have
multiple jobs at once and these jobs may be related as well as unrelated of
course if the jobs are related then they are much easier to maintain and an
example of this would be if you worked as a marketing manager and on the side
you build a consultancy business advising on matters related to marketing
an example unrelated jobs would be if for example you work as a marketing
manager at a company and on the side on the weekends you work as a yoga
instructor in any of these two cases the benefit is that you would not be relying
only on one income source if anything were to happen with this one income
stream let's say in the very worst case you got laid off or the company perhaps
shut down then you would still have this income stream from your other job number
two is to always be hireable and there are two main things to this the first
one is always making sure that your red is up to date looking fresh and
interesting and also building an online presence it doesn't mean that you have
to be on all social media platforms from Twitter Facebook Instagram etc but I
think that the most important thing is that at least you have a LinkedIn
profile where you post your resume your profile and your accomplishments there
that way there is always the possibility that a hiring manager or a headhunter
can stumble across your profile see your experiences your accomplishments and
might even contact you I understand that most people want to be loyal toward the
company that they are working for and ideally work for that company for the
longest time possible and in general that is a good thing to do the only
problem is that by doing that by relying on one single company and not putting
yourself out there you are in a very risky position and by doing that you are
also not in a place where you are able to negotiate in other words if you have
only one choice and your company also knows this then you will have no power
to negotiate about your position your working conditions your salary etc so
ideally you would always want to be in a position where let's say the demand for
you and your work is higher than the supply which is that one you that one
person by the way in case you're enjoying this video so far then please
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alarm bell so that YouTube will notify you of my new videos the third thing
that you have to do if you want a future proof your career is to continually
invest in yourself invest in learning new skills and invest time and energy
into having more kinds of experience try to think about what kind of career or
multiple careers you would ideally like to have in future and from that then
work backward and think about the kind of different skills knowledge and
experiences that you would need to have to get there and try to build a very
unique kind of profile that perhaps only you will have and by doing that you will
put yourself in a very competitive position what's really important to note
here is that you should never leave your the development of your skills and your
knowledge up to the company the Learning and Development Department or the HR
department of the company of course they may have their own training program
learning program that you will have to participate in but usually that would be
something that is more company directed they are offering you to learn those
kind of specific skills that will be useful for for the job you are doing at
their company and these might prove to be very useful but the problem with this
is that it is very company centric so I think what's important to do is rather
than relying on the Learning and Development Program that the company
provides you have to proactively think of your own learning program what kind
of things do you think you want to master you want to be skilled at so that
in the long term you can have the kind of career that you want here's a
question for you have you ever thought about the need to future-proof your
career and also have you put in any kind of effort in order to do that please let
me know the comments below I would really love to hear about that number
four is that you need to have a very adaptive mindset and what this means is
that you need to try to avoid to sort of pigeonhole yourself to only work in a
specific job function like I said earlier of course it's a good thing to
be specialized but you don't want to be specialized to that degree to the extent
that it will be hard for you to be flexible and adapt and possibly perform
other kinds of job functions so try to not be too focused on job descriptions
titles and job functions but rather than that try to think about what kind of
problem that you want to solve for a company the company you work in for a
client and by doing that you will safeguard yourself because in the case
that in future some job positions job descriptions will fall away will
disappear because perhaps it will be performed more efficiently by robots
machines computers and you will be able to quickly adapt to
that situation and do another job that requires closely related skills number
five and this is extremely important but oftentimes underestimated is that you
always need to have healthy finances you always need to be on top of your
finances meaning that you are always liquid you are always able to pay your
bills and that you also have a considerable amount of savings or
investments and now you might ask what is the relation between my savings and
my finances and my career or my future career aren't these like two different
things what healthy finances and sufficient savings gives you this choice
in your career development you always want to have an option of changing
careers moving to a different better job and so on if your finances are a mess
and you don't have sufficient savings or an emergency fund what is likely to
happen is that you are always stuck with that one job except of course if you get
another job that pays you at least as well or even more then you can simply
transition to that other job but changing careers developing your career
is not always that simple in an effort to pursue what you really want to do in
your career sometimes it means working in a job that pays less and by having
healthy finances and enough of an emergency fund you will have the choice
and the flexibility to develop your career in a way that you want rather
than having to make your career choices based on salary alone there are many
people who have very high earning jobs but at some point they realize that they
actually do not want to be in that job but they are so highly leveraged they
have various kinds of loans and even though they have such a high salary they
still live paycheck to paycheck and they don't have anything significant saved up
so when the time comes that they want to go for perhaps rather drastic career
change it becomes very difficult because in a way they are chained to that job
because they need the salary they need to have that specific income level to
pay all their bills and their loans and they cannot afford to quit their job or
maybe do radical or maybe take a break for a few
months before they want to continue something else they need to transition
directly to another job that pays at least as much but if your finances are
in order and you have a big enough of an emergency fund then there are a lot of
things that you can do and you can be much more flexible in planning your
career by the way in case you're new to this channel I make videos on career
change multiple careers and the mindsets that go along with it and one of my
goals is that I want to help you to develop the necessary courage to go
after and shape the kind of career that you really want and that is best for
your life I hope that this video was useful to you and that you enjoyed it as
always I thank you so much for watching especially to those of you who stuck
with me to the very end I wish you an awesome day all the best for your career
and I hope to see you again soon