Lesson one, - age five - -

By the age of 5, future construction executives already know that past performance predicts future performance. It’s how they navigated through grade school without getting beat up twice by the same bully. History is everything. When they look at you in the hiring process, they are looking at your history. ?Think about that, - your employment history is your feature billing. Not your education, projects, graphics, glamorous verbiage, but only how long and with whom you worked. Can’t get an interview? That’s all you need to know.

?You may have some valid reasons, perhaps your past employer had a mass lay off, downsized, had financial problems, all legitimately out of your control. Problem is, turnover effects the bottom half, not the top half of any team. ?Thanks for the warning. Good people leave on their terms and timeline.

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What’s stopping you?

What you think is your daily life is the foundation for the last half of your life.

1.?????? You’re in your comfort zone. Risk averse. You know what’s expected, people, clients, expectations. I don’t want to devalue predictability, it’s important. It can also get in the way of moving into something better.

2.?????? Higher salaries, days off, personal favours, sometimes hook good people into staying with poor companies.

3.?????? “I like where I am.” ??That’s the Oprah answer, but it does not trump logic. There are many people who like where they are and aren’t going anywhere. Seems like a plan until it’s not. Too lazy to think with this feel good answer.

4.?????? The real reason might be most people aren’t very good at career planning. Most of us don’t spend much time designing a life that will get us where we want to be at age 50. That’s not all bad. There’s something to be said about just living a life!

Summary,

-????????? Move to better, broader, more challenging position or company every 3-4 years. If you’re not moving ahead, clean up your resume and leave.

-????????? Demand larger projects and responsibility continuously.

-????????? Work well with others, they will become your references.

-????????? Stay in the same lane. Just do more, better, bigger of what you’re already doing.

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A resume is not really a resume, - it’s the story of a life.

Construction is the most amazing industry in the economy and we’re all lucky to be part? of it.

Live your life, but if you have a choice, ?factor in your future!

Wolf

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