Merry Christmas! Go Create Your Career and Llife!

Merry Christmas! As you reflect about this past year I want you to grab a sheet of paper and think about all the great things that have happened in relation to your career. Now I want you to correlate this list with your life. How have these experiences impacted your life? What would you do differently? What can be taken away? Each year, as is each day, is a chance to learn and experience life. Grab a hold of it and GO! Have no regrets as Gary Vee states. Take what you have learned and go create the career and life you want!

After the Employee is Hired: Now What?

Many instances after an employee team member is hired the job description is null and void as the new employee begins to learn their role as the demand is needed and not always according to the original job description. Human resources and organizational management should provide employee team members with independence in job and task design of their roles (Plomp, Tims, Akkermans, Khapova, Jansen, & Bakker, 2016). Allow the new employee to provide their own insight to the job role and tasks. All the employee to feel as if they belong from day one.

Plomp, J., Tims, M., Akkermans, J., Khapova, S. N., Jansen, P. W., & Bakker, A. B. (2016). Careercompetencies and job crafting How proactive employees influence their well-being. Career Development International, 21(6), 587-602.

How Can Organizations Help With Job Crafting?

Job crafting within organizations can be supported on three levels, the organizational level, the team level, and the employee team member level. Individual growth leads to team growth which leads to organizational growth (Cianni & Wnuck, 1997). As a result of the lack of organizational management support, employee team members may not be aware of job crafting and what it entails let alone collaborative job crafting. Awareness should be raised among employee team members to partake in job crafting which will provide them the chances to develop their talents (Tims, Bakker, & Derks, 2014; Bakker, Tims, & Derks, 2012).

Bakker, A., Breidahl, E., Lee, S. J., Tims, M. & Derks, D. (2012). Proactive personality and job performance: The role of job crafting and work engagement. Human Relations, 65(10),1359-1378.

Cianni, M., & Wnuck, D. (1997). Individual growth and team enhancement: Moving toward a new model of career development. Academy of Management Executive, 11(1), 105-115.doi:10.5465/AME.1997.9707100663

Tims, M., Bakker, A.B., and Derks, D. (2014), Daily job crafting and the self-efficacy performance relationship. Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 29 No. 5, pp. 490-507