Recover from a Career Setback
It is common to experience major career disappointments, even if you seem to be doing all the right things. You may be good at your job, working well with your team and within the organization. Moreover, you may be receiving good performance appraisals but may be looked over when the time and the chance for promotion comes.
Although it may be extremely disappointing and disheartening, but you can recover after the setback by following these simple six steps:
1. Handle Your Emotions
Act strong and don’t show your disappointment in the office. Portray yourself as a team player by showing support for the company’s decision.
2. Get Support
If you want to express your emotions, then better do it outside the office. You can talk to friends, family or trusted work colleagues but make sure you do it outside the office. Turn to peer networks, online discussion groups or a personal coach in order to find help regarding the options available to you so that you can move forward with a positive attitude.
3. Analyze the Cause
The important thing is to find out the reason why you got passed over? Here are some of the most common reasons and suggestions for how to respond:
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You Don’t Fit
You cannot influence your company’s hiring decisions. Although you may consider yourself to be the best possible option for the internal position, the company may have different ideas altogether.
It is important to understand yourself and where you belong. This also means that you should have a better idea about your goals in the future. What you may think is the next most logical career step is not the best fit.
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You Don’t Measure Up
The increasing competition in every field of life has led to survival of the fittest. Nowadays, only those people are rewarded who don’t just meet the requirements, but surpass them, and who’ve done a superlative job of building personal networks.
thus find out about where you lack? Do you lack in specific knowledge or experience? Strong personal networks? Visibility? Understand how you can strengthen yourself and your future prospects.
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You’re Needed Where You Are
Organizations do whatever is best in their interest, not yours. It is possible that you may be doing great in your current position and your manager doesn’t want to let you go. It may be easier or cheaper to find someone else to fill that other job than it would be to move you into that position and then have to replace you.
This can prove to be a difficult situation. In order to progress, you may need to find a way to move up within the existing organization or you need to look elsewhere.
4. Evaluate Your Options
Once you found out why you’ve been passed over, you need to decide whether to:
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Stay with the company and work towards the next opportunity.
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Stay with the company, but work for a different goal.
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Look for a step up at another company.
5. Close the Gap
Once you decide about what you want, evaluate whatever you need to get to the required place. Whether is more education or experience, whatever it is find it out and work towards accomplishing the missing things.
6. Recalibrate Your Goals
Now that you have learned all about the causes behind your missed opportunity, make some new goals for yourself in order to help yourself avoid such a setback in the future. In whatever areas you lack, make sure to overcome them
Disappointments are inevitable in careers. You cannot get everything you want. But the way you respond to them will be the real measure of your future success.
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