Know Your Job If You Intend To Keep It

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Know Your Job If You Intend To Keep It Your chances of career progress, appreciation and retention increase when you succeed in satisfying expectations of stakeholders. Just slogging away and keeping your head down to somehow finish appointed tasks by the end of the day is insufficient to ensure progress and security. One must act, as well as look, the part expected of his/her job role to keep things in balance. And this cannot be done without a job analysis. And, of course, a job analysis also helps you manage your workload in a more efficient manner. So, let’s see how to do it.

Collect And Review All Available Documentation

big law firm, be prepared to fight against ‘greed’ and

On The Job Role:

prove your point by ‘sacrifice.’ It always comes down to that, anyway – ‘you’ sacrifice; ‘we’ have a blast in Bali.

Start with the job advertisement the firm had put out and to which you had responded to get your

Be that as it may, understand that you have been

job. The most important cues and expectations

given a job for a reason, and you need to justify that.

of the company would be there.

The rationale for keeping you in your job would be

Try to learn whether persons in similar job posi-

determined by how well you fit into your job role and

tions did their job well and how they did it. Also

align yourself with the strategy of your team. Prime

try to get feedback on how to do the job better.

yourself for performance that fits in with organizational

Find out whether there is any job-role specific

expectations and culture as advertised by the

training out there in the market, possibly online,

management. Do not follow what they practice, but try

that would help you to gain a better understand-

to follow what they preach, and do what they tell you

ing of your job

to do, if you want to keep that job going.

Analyze reward and incentive schemes for the job and you’d understand what is given priority.

Always Check And Confirm Priorities With Your

But, you have to understand that just shoulder-

Superior:

ing high priority work is insufficient and there would be many things that would come with a

Don’t ever let the boss get angry. Excuses are not

job, and taken for granted. Doing them would

weapons of defense, but of suicide, in a grim economy.

not earn you a laurel, but not doing them can

Don’t ever put yourself in a position where you need

cost you your job.

to pull out an excuse. Especially in a law firm, where there are extremely sharp and hard people all around,

Try to Understand the Organization’s Or Law

excuses are quickly seen through as what they are.

Firm’s Strategy and Culture: Confirm lack of resources with your boss: Cultures keep changing with lessons learnt by the management. The meteoric fall of Dewey & LeBoeuf

Complaining of lack of resources is useless, but if there

would find the greedy preaching against greed, at

is something that is absolutely essential for you to do

least for this year in law firms across the country. In

your work, and it is not there, make sure that your

law firms with poorer but more conscientious lawyers,

boss also knows of the lack of resources. Chances

things would continue as they did. But if you are in a

are that you would be asked to do your work without

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