Create Your Own Job

If you are worried about the economic crisis and concerned that your job may soon be eliminated, it’s time for you to create your own job! Even if the company you work for is faring well in these tough times, creating your own job will help to secure your future!

What does create your own job mean? How can anyone just create a job? The secret is to know your company! Most people go to work, do the job they were hired to do and then go home. They don’t pay much attention to what everyone else is doing unless it directly impacts their own job responsibilities. The average worker has very little idea of how others perform their job functions within the company.

In order to create your own job you need to become curious! Talk to your co-workers, pay attention to how things are getting done in other departments. Listen to the complaints of your co-workers! Is one department doing much more work than another? Are there serious overlaps in actual duties from one department to another? Is there a gap where things get lost in the process? Perhaps there are too many supervisors and not enough workers?

Figure out how each department’s duties interact with each other. Does one department take the process to a certain point and then another department picks it up from there to complete their process? Perhaps somewhere in between these departments something else could occur to make everyone’s job easier?

The idea is to become the expert on the company you work for in order to see where the problems or challenges exist. Once you have determined the challenges or gaps if you will, you can then take action.

Determine exactly what the problem or challenge is, then come up with a workable solution that will not only add value to the company, make processes easier, more seamless, increase productivity, improve customer service, or whatever the case may be in your particular company. You then approach the powers that be, and show them how your newly created job can solve an existing problem.

Even if the company can’t justify creating an actual position to solve this problem, they will see your dedication to the company and your ability to not only seek out challenges but the ability to create a positive workable solution.

This tells your boss that you are indeed a very valuable employee! You also gain the knowledge of other departments and are then able to be placed in other positions should the need to eliminate your job arise.

Often times, following this process literally opens the door to a new position that you have basically created on your own, that the company didn’t even realize it needed. Every company has gaps and holes in their processes. It takes someone with dedication and the willingness to delve deeper than the average employee to seek them out and find solutions for these gaps.

Take the initiative and you will surely see the rewards! Creating your own job may even mean, saving your future at the company!