Don't fall for all job offers

Any working individual, irrespective of gender remains busy with his or her work for around ten or twelve hours every day. One may not realize this when a person takes up a job and he or she surely cannot predict anything as far as job satisfaction is concerned. And if the workplace atmosphere is not conducive, life can turn out to be extremely despairing and very miserable.

It is very difficult to discern in advance if a company is good and its working environment friendly and genial. And if you happen to be in haste to get a job, it becomes all the more difficult. But if you keep your wits around and engage in some research, you can certainly identify some issues that could serve as red flags and hence indicate to you the need to be cautious.  The undermentioned aspects will surely generate some concerns, though raise apprehensions, though an odd one or two should not be worrisome at all:

• Contact methodology:  All recruitment processes are elimination rounds. However, the manner in which you are contacted and treated during the selection process should be an indicator of poor support infrastructure. If you apply for a job and are short-listed, there is nothing wrong in expecting a polite conduct with your queries being responded to candidly. If things are otherwise or interviews scheduled are not conducted, you would be better off in a different place.
• Workplace atmosphere: Taking up a job on the basis of information gathered from the internet or an interview conducted elsewhere is never advisable. You must see the workplace and its working atmosphere. The attitudinal disposition of the employees also matter a lot. Caution should be triggered if you find the place dirty and devoid of basic amenities, safety precautions and congenial working environment. Even display of offensive notices like ‘….. IS NOT ALLOWED. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROCEEDED AGAINST’ or ‘NO PARKING OF VEHICLES, TYRES WILL BE DEFLATED’ should convey to you that the management is least bothered about respect for visitors or employee welfare and that working here could be a discouraging affair.
• Word-of-mouth reputation:  Today, mediums like the internet and various social media sites can be made use of to determine what ex-employees feel about a company. You can get to have a fairly accurate impression about the state of affairs of the company, including its financial status. As a matter of fact, such research should be done as a part of your preparations for the interview session. There are many web sites that offer a platform for employees to vent their job experiences; reaching out to them will help you know additional information.
• Suspicions:  As a prospective employee, you would never take any move that is detrimental to your career interests. Likewise, prospective employers also do not want to run the risk of recruiting a person of doubtful antecedents; and that is why background checks are conducted. If you are seeking appointment to post that handles classified organizational information, the checks will be more stringent. Checks done by pointing fingers manifest misgivings. If you are not being trusted now, you will not be trusted subsequently? Is there any use joining such an organization?
• Assigned responsibilities: After an interviewing session with one or two hiring managers, you will be able to gauge what is expected of you as far as your charter of responsibilities and company aspirations are concerned. If there happens to be any ambiguity or indistinctness, rest assured that the job environment will be terrible, if not ruinous.
• Sustenance consternation:  If you happen to have a boss with whom your chemistry matches, you will generally be content with your job. You must make it a point to talk about working and reporting methodologies during your interview; in this way you will be able to establish an approximate compatibility equation that you may enjoy. If you have any inkling that you may find the job uncomfortable, be bold enough to decline the offer.
• Time provided to join:  There are some seasonal job requirements wherein the haste on the part of the employer is understandable. Such jobs do not stipulate much experience, but in other cases, extreme anxiety on the part of the employer is to be construed as a red flag. You must view all such job offers with certain amount of doubt and skepticism.

There can be no hiring procedure that can be said to be flawless. It is a fact that while all employers try their best to recruit the best candidates, there are some who rely to some extent on their instinct too. If that be so, you should also do likewise. If things do not seem to be favourable to you, it calls for delving into more details before you make up your mind to accept or reject a job offer.

Career planning in a nutshell

Most people experience hitches and difficulties during the early stages of their career. They have before them several options that promise to offer good money, repute, perks and even job security. The career options so offered tend to be very bewildering and perplexing. And because of this as also feelings of uncertainty that they would be plagued with, they would suffer disgust too. While a positive attitude would help in combatting feelings of disgust, those of bewilderment and confusion can be won over by proper career planning.

There are two ways by which you can start the reduction of your confusion. You can identify your penchants and inclinations; and then decide on a career that is in tune with them, but without bothering about the progress that you can possibly make. Alternatively, you could find out what serves to motivate you and then select a career that serves to inspire you or facilitates achieving whatever you desire.  Needless to say, you will have to possess all the requisite qualifications needed for the career in question. Both the options will help you to attain whatever you seek. The first method will present before you a career path that you need to embark upon, which by itself will be a great achievement, though many people will advise you against following it.  History is replete with examples of how people trudged this path and achieved fame and job satisfaction. The second option is obviously one wherein you will slowly and steadily move forward towards the objectives identified by you.  

Selecting any of the above methods is of little consequence. It is of great importance to identify your strengths and weaknesses. You need to do some introspection with a cool mind and ponder over various successes, big or small, that you may have had and how they enthused you to do better. It is essential that you make a note of all such occasions. You will find, much to your surprise though, that as you catalogue your past successes, a definite design will unfold before you. You will see in your mind's eye activities that you excel at and are at ease with. Every such activity indicates a career option and highlights your unique plusses which will lend great potency to all career options that you may decide to exercise in the future. 

The next step is What you need to find out issues and aspects that galvanize you and which you harbour  great desire to have. It is something like giving a concrete configuration to your dreams. You need to discover where you fit in – your position has to be between your current position and the position that you eventually aspire to be in. When this portrait becomes clear and apparent, you will realize that you are more conscious, confident and focussed in your work. Such a disposition will stand you in very good stead throughout your career journey. What you have actually achieved is a well-stated and easily recognizable picture of yourself with clear-cut attributes that will project you in good light.

Depending upon the intensity of your expectations and also your propensity, you can also look for careers that provide you adequate compensation for a way of life that you seek to lead. Suppose you want to go in for an outdoor routine with plenty of sporting and adventure activities, you could well opt for armed forces as a career. Likewise, if you have a penchant for travelling and meeting people, a career in sales will be a good fit for you. Quite a few men and women get carried away by glitzy fallacies related to some careers but are subsequently required to change their decisions. Remember that appreciation, advancement, benefits, job contentment and excellent lifestyle all stem from only one single thing – you have to be passionate and adoring towards the work that you do. 

Once you have decided on the path that you intend moving, you will need to develop your skills and capabilities. Different careers call for different qualifications and your objective should be acquire them. All this makes it mandatory for you to research well, get to know money issues involved and prepare yourself to gain a practical insight into the career in question. In addition, you should also make serious efforts to improve your communication skills, get to understand workplace ethics and nurture good relationships with others.  

The most important point at issue is to have well enunciated objectives before you embark upon your career journey, all throughout will offer you great learning experiences. You will thus get to have practical exposures to professional matters on a continual basis. The foregoing notwithstanding, the foremost item on your agenda should be to decide on your first step described above.  

Patience & purposefulness - new job hunt mantras

No statistics related to unemployment can make you infer with exactitude the precise number of men and women who are jobless. But it is quite high for certain. And if we add the strength of people who are losing their jobs to it, the figures will be monumental by all standards. In the light of the foregoing, any dream of getting a job can appear to be rather disheartening.  But is it actually so? You will find companies carrying on relentlessly with their hiring processes and this manifests that there are ample employment opportunities and getting a job may not be such a difficult proposition. Organizations continue to recruit people; this is indicative of the fact that there are opportunities existing and you can get a job. But this is subject to you maintaining adequate drive and determination during he entire job search period. 

You will always have time at your disposal while engaged in a job search. You will have some time to spare. So how do you put your spare time to good use.  You will need to remain preoccupied till such time you get a call for an interview, but if you do not, there are chances that you may slip into a state of low spirits and hopelessness. And that is no good omen as far as your career is concerned. If you get a feeling that your unemployment is draining you, here are three tips to make you feel bold and enterprising:

• Harbour an upbeat disposition:  You may be persistent in your efforts and could be making endeavours to sell yourself, but still not getting any calls. It is natural that you may get dispirited. You have to guard against any such development and make certain that your enthusiasm does not diminish. Job hunting is a painstaking activity and if you are overcome with a feeling of unemployment, you can safely assume that you will be led nowhere. Nothing in this world is everlasting and therefore, upholding a positive outlook needs no emphasis. You should continue with your efforts and any hearsay about adverse impacts should be discounted with all the affirmation at your command. Simply remember that disappointing talks and news pertaining to the job market may be applicable to others but not pertinent to you. 
• Don't give up o your job search efforts: You should not slacken your job hunt just because you have applied for a couple of job and are waiting to get a call. This will mean for working over ten to twelve hours daily – perhaps similar to a normal job routine. You may have forwarded your resume to a dozens of setups, but till such time you hear from them, you will have piles and piles of toil to do. Today, a hunt for a job has become relatively easy with advancements in information and communication technologies. Remember that the more you exert, the more number of openings will be there for you to consider.         
• You must promote and market yourself:  Most job hunters refrain from embarking on any plan to sell themselves. Self-promotion is an essential ingredient of any job hunt strategy and the fact is that it pays dividends. You may circulate your resume on the net or otherwise, but unless you are well conversant with the use of certain prime phrases or key words that should be tactically dovetailed in the body of it, prospective recruiters will never be able to locate you or discern your skills. In the light of the foregoing, it is imperative that your resume be crafted properly. Joining social media sites will add on to your gains, the most important one being the prospects of linking with prospective employers. Even if you are already employed and not leading a hand-to-mouth life, your efforts to sell yourself will help you find a job of your dreams.

If you keep yourself occupied when you are in an unemployment phase, it will always keep you in good stead. In other words, you cannot help but doing that; it is an inescapable requirement. And if you make efforts to promote yourself all along, display a positive outlook at all times and maintain appropriate resolve, a good job will come knocking at your door for sure. Every new sunrise will herald an opportunity to change your life for the better. But you should remember that the outcome of your efforts will be contingent your hard work. You cannot ask for the moon without venturing hard! Your hard work is the only thing that eventually pays you. 

Fuse all your fervency into your career

Do you have several diverse passions? Do you like to try out new things? If your responses are in the affirmative, then you are a special individual - a person who has multiple skills and talents. In other words, you have a multi-zealous temperament and character. But it should be remembered that if you harbour a multitude of passions, it will be difficult to continue in a single career permanently. 

The possibility of embarking on a career that blends two or more of your passions cannot be discounted at all. And if you happen to be successful in doing so, your employer will view you favourably; you could also receive a promotion or a salary hike for being skilled in several arenas. Some tips to go about in such a case are:

• Discern the quantum of multiplicity required: Do you happen to be a person who is required to utilize specific expertise on different days? For example, on a particular day you may need to prepare written reports and on another take to a leadership role. Or is it that you like better to continue working on a specific assignment till such time it is finished? If you can determine the quantitative requirement of assortment and change in your work on a periodic basis so that you remain constructively involved and contented in the process, you will be able to identify possible careers that will offer you such opportunities.   
• Find out & be in quest for multi-faceted careers:  Are your inclinations tangential or do they tend to meet somewhere? There are many arenas that entail a combination of more than one discipline. For example, journalism necessitates a penchant for photography and communication skills or structural designing that calls for knowledge of art and science are some examples. Likewise, it is ecology that places emphasis on knowledge of both zoology and botany; hospitality that requires a penchant for food-craft and people skills; and cartography that calls for a sound knowledge of geography and drawing skills.   
• Research careers that are tough and capable of being self-led:  Several careers demand multi-ardent make-ups and companies seek such people. There are organizations that are guided by the philosophy that when all employees think alike, then no one actually thinks. They prefer open-mode employees who are more receptive instead of closed-mode ones who are tunnel-visioned. Creative vision is what progressive companies seek and to achieve that, they need multi-faceted personalities. You should identify establishments that encourage innovativeness and value individuality as a trait. 
• Start with a single passion and gradually branch out: The best way to shape and get into a career of your dreams is by underscoring a single expertise possessed by you and subsequently grasping any opportunity pertaining to a different field whenever it crops up. It is always advisable to remain active, start ventures and simultaneously offer recommendations to facilitate organizational growth. The basic requirement however, is identifying a liberal and progressive set-up where your seniors are amenable to your desires and perhaps as multi-ardent like you. Needless to state, you will have to acquit yourself well in whatever tasks are assigned to you.     
• Search for careers that are objective-oriented: Simply by glancing at an advertisement, you can discern if an organization is seeking to employ a person who is going to concentrate efforts on achieving client satisfaction or effective crisis management; or on the other hand, wanting to fill up a vacancy that calls for performing mundane tasks. The latter category of jobs may not suit you, given your multi-ardent personality. If a job entails directing efforts towards advantages and not mere attributes, it will definitely go well with you and your passions.   
• Exhibit willingness to change and experiment:  It is essential that you comprehend various techniques of operations to include sales; market trends; behavioural patterns; complexities related to your work; alliances and inter- and intra-department dependencies; and client expectations, to name just a few.  When at work, there are infinite methods to perform well. You could incorporate all your passions or qualities in bringing about a better output. Being venturesome is a superb way to blend all your passions and eventually succeed in your pursuits. After all, it is the end result that matters.

It should be your utmost endeavor to make your career spirited and strong. And when you do that, you will emerge triumphant as far as application of the knowhow and inherent skills possessed by you. You will come out with novel ideas and newer methods to tackle problems related to your job. Therefore, the need to make your career a multi-faceted one needs no emphasis. However, ab initio, you should comprehend what are your basic needs and what can be done to fulfill them; thereafter you can think of pursuing a career that makes use of your multi-skills and derive satisfaction from their application to your day to day routine. 

Adhere to openness at work for career progress

Today, the buzz word in the corporate world is ‘transparency’. Openness at work is the new mantra. Similar is the case in government departments where people have a right to know how governance is being executed. In the corporate world, people have increasingly been insisting on transparent dealings by companies whose goods and services they contract or purchase. 

Openness is synonymous with transparency. What does openness mean and how does it impact workplace functioning and operations? Openness at work implies practicing honest dealings, frank communications and straightforward dispositions. It is also implies making useful contributions, including how to go about for the purpose. And most importantly, openness serves to give a boost to your career. 

So how do you practice openness at work? Here are five methods that can help you send signals of being candid, honest and truthful: 

• Keep your seniors in picture about what galvanizes you: It is possible that because of financial constraints, your company may not be in a position to offer you a substantial increment. However, if you are frank about various non-pecuniary motivations that impel you, you will certain succeeds in getting some that raises your job contentment level. There may be occasions when you would like a couple of hours off to attend to family obligations or when you would like to take recourse to a flexible time schedule. If you have been interacting with your seniors on a plane of candidness and forthrightness, it is unlikely that your management will not oblige you. 
• Be conscious of your abilities: You should be confident of your skills and abilities. When you discuss anything with your boss, you should be frank and forthright in voicing opinions and recommendations. While you should not volunteer for an assignment that you know is beyond your capabilities, it is also important to not let any of your dexterity known for fear of being assigned additional responsibilities. Even if you do not or are not required to make use of a special skill that you possess in your present role, letting the management know about it will always stand you in good stead for obvious reasons. If you are not communicative about what you are capable or incapable of doing, your company will not be able to utilize your skills for organisational and your personal benefits.
• Express your appreciation and gratification: You could be adept at certain types of assignments or enjoy the demands of specific ones. It is essential that you provide this information to your management. If you make your preference known, in all probabilities, your boss will keep you in mind while allocating tasks next time. Your company, as much as you will be happy at it because eventually when you undertake a preferred task, the organisational productivity will be boosted. 
• Don't run after undue recognition: Your individual contributions as distinct from your team’s performance should be known to your seniors. This will ensure that the credit and reward that is justifiably yours will come to you. You should make it a point to not take credit for a job well done that otherwise is deserved by somebody else. The foregoing will also make certain that if a job is not completed or is not done with perfection, you will not get blamed for it. If your management gets to know who makes more contributions at work or who makes sincere efforts, it will be fair distribution of rewards and promotions. 
• Your actions & conduct should speak of your helpfulness: You can have brilliant ideas about how your company can improve or even how you can effect a better performance. Such ideas are of no use unless you make them known. Communicating your ideas will indicate to the management and the environment that you indeed have your thinking cap on and that you want to be really valuable in so far as discharging your work responsibilities are concerned. You could be engaged in a specific task that calls for an understanding of how a different vertical functions but under normal circumstances, you do not play an active role in the functioning of that vertical. If you make your intent known, you will be appreciated for your keenness to learn and work sincerely.

If you go about your work with truthfulness and integrity, you are likely to do well in your career. But if you are transparent in your dealings, you stand more chances of success. You should thus always be ready to walk an extra mile as far as building trust with others. Considering the foregoing, it is essential that you maintain your poise and not deviate from the path that you have embarked upon.

Control your workplace sensitivity

Work can prove to be a vexatious experience and to cope with workplace pressures, you have to be physically and mentally robust. You may think that there is nothing wrong with you apparently, but you could be suffering internally as a result of which, your career will take a beating. You will thus deprive yourself of job satisfaction.

Although different ideas and opinions in the workplace can result in imaginative solutions and breakthroughs, mistrust and tension can also be a byproduct. When co-workers have misgivings  or do not enjoy cordial relations amongst themselves, work output will take a beating to an extent that the working environment can become hostile, at times leading to workplace conflict.  Those in supervisory roles such as team leads, project managers and human resources representatives can overcome mistrust and tension in the workplace by exercising control over their sensitivities at work so that understanding, communication and positive interactions are facilitated.

There will be many people, men and women alike who are not happy with their current jobs or respective careers. Therefore, if you happen to be one of them, it is essential that you control your sensitivity at work. You simply cannot afford to keep your tensions confined within your own self. What is important is that you need to be passionate about your work, even when the going is tough or working conditions not in your favour. And if you feel exasperated, take it that you will find achieving your career goals a very difficult proposition. 

Here is how you can keep your workplace sensitivity in check:

• Harbour a positive disposition:   There will be ascents and descents and bumpy and smooth rides in your career. Smooth rides will evidently trigger off additional verve, but bumpy rides will exhaust you. You will need to modify your attitude. Do you know that the greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude?
• Don't stick to irrelevant principles:   Your principles and convictions indeed steer you on your career path. If what you deem is at variance with what you do, it is unlikely that you will move forward. You have to compulsorily suppose that you harbour soaring oomph. If your beliefs are irrelevant discard them to convert your individual personality into a robust one.  
• Say goodbye to animosity & enmity:  Resentment and rage are common feelings, but hanging on to them drains you out. If you do not gnash your teeth, you will be inclined to condone things; the outcome will be a proclivity to bank on positivity. Take a decision to control your temper. Remember that an angry man opens his mouth but shuts his eyes.
• Don't indulge in blame-games:   We have a propensity to shirk work and if things go off beam, we are quick to hold others responsible. You should stay away from passing the buck and instead learn from mistakes. You will realize that you will experience growth and advancement. A point to bear in mind is that if you point a finger at anybody, there will be three pointing towards you too.
• Fix on good alternatives: Your career will be loaded with options, some influential and some restraining. You have to fix on the better options and this will transform you into a more bouncy individual. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible, you will disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that will be left is compromise.
• Change over to a new job:   You would know if your work boosts your get-up-and-go or bleeds you dry. If people stick on to their jobs even if they do not like them, their lone prompting factor is uncertainty. Uncertainty is bound to destine you to languish. If you do not want to pine away, you should decide to switch over to another job.

You may go about your work the way you want, unless you work hard, display a high degree of devotion to duty and remain resolute in your approach, you will never acquit yourself well. You will always have success elude you. It is necessary that you should not be unduly worried about being successful but on the contrary, exert yourself to whatever duties are assigned to you.

Manage your career efficiently to be successful

Most people have a tendency to introspect their career at some stage or the other. They invariably question themselves to find out the job or career tat they are in actual gels with their skills, capabilities, likes, dislikes and their overall personality. And if they conclude that things are not as good as they should be, they start thinking over what they should do to transform things to their advantage. The hard truth is that if you do not understand the consequences of your findings, any effort to push your career forward will become a very arduous task. It is therefore, no wonder that many people get stuck in a career trap and remain destined to stagnate. This is equally applicable to qualified and efficient people too because of their inability to discern the direction in which their career is moving.

The above highlights the significance of proper career management to be successful.  If you happen to be suffering from shortfalls in career management, you should consider five issues in a practical manner so that you are able to make bold and intelligent career-related decisions. Some of these issues may be rather difficult to deliberate upon and come to conclusions. However, you can always emerge victorious and set subdue your difficult situations by taking advice and assistance from individuals with whom you have enjoyed good relationships and whose sagacity appeals to you. These issues are:

• What is it that you seek? You must catalogue various facets that you want to change in the times to come and also things that you wish for to formulate a plan for your career. It is essential that you are specific to the maximum possible extent in your approach and accord precedence to various items on your list. The list could well feature practical issues like remuneration and other worldly aspects like receiving recognition; eventually the list you make can be converted to your career objectives.
• What do you need to do to attain your career objectives? Your actions to ensure fructification of your career objectives is nothing but career management. You must reduce to writing each and every thing that you ought to be doing towards this. Consequently, you may be required to brush up your resume, revivify your contact base, attend a training capsule to acquire a new qualification or discuss the issue of your career advancement with your boss. It is essential that you do not miss out on any of your proposed actions; the best way is to set a cut-off date for each for accomplishment.
• What is your working approach & technique? It is an inescapable requirement to comprehend your work disposition, behaviour and make-up. The foregoing entails the manner in which you consider various assignments and cooperate with your co-workers. It is your personality as a whole that governs the suitability of functions and responsibilities that could be assigned to you as also the atmosphere in which you can perform optimally. If by temperament you display single-mindedness and enthusiasm towards your work, any consultative assignment may not be your cup of tea; the reverse is also equally relevant and applicable. You may not realise this, but it is a fact that better than you, people surrounding you can estimate your working approach and technique; and hence it is always a good proposition to ask for their views off and on.
• What can you offer to a prospective employer? You should be aware of your USPs so that you can make them known to your prospective employer. These USPs are your forte and assets; and amongst other things, include your knowledge, capability and experience. Other significant attributes that can impress are your contact base, status, spoken reputation and power of sway. You need to market your USPs meritoriously and efficiently. You should remember that it is rather challenging to be detached and unbiased in your efforts to achieve all this and hence you must obtain feedback and substantiation from others as validation. 
• How do you propose to attain success in your career? In any sphere of activity, you will have alternatives and preferences. Some of them could be deciding against relocation, accepting lateral transfers, taking on different or diverse responsibilities and switching your job and even career. You may even decide to alter or modify your work style or embark upon endeavours where you are your own boss. The alternatives that you have should be considered in detail and validated through discussions with people in similar pursuits. Even placement agencies can give you valuable feedback on your standing vis-à-vis other contenders. After a holistic consideration of all these factors, you can proceed to decide on what goes with you the best.

You should not forget that the respect you have for your career stems from within you. However, there could be some external influences too. But the fact is that nobody else can do career management on your behalf. The responsibility to do it rests on you alone and the manner you go about ought to be based on your own discernment of you.

Do you want to be classified as a generalist or specialist?

You need to very closely evaluate your skills to determine if you are a jack of all trades implying skillful enough in several fields or a specialist implying highly skilled in a particular  and restricted field. Whatever be your findings, nearly half of employed people who are recruited as specialists view themselves as jack of all trades; in other words, they see themselves as generalists. 

If the above situation persists, there is bound to be this very dangerous likelihood of will this great perilous possibility of having an army of generalists. And unfortunately, the outcome will be creation of several impediments in individual career management and in the long run harm organizational and even national capabilities to function effectively in a multinational and multi-cultural atmosphere. Considering  the foregoing, when people seek newer responsibilities, who do you think will stand to gain - generalists or a specialists?

Generalists, as the name signifies, possess very wide-ranging and all-inclusive skills and expertise in an equally broad spectrum of branches of learning but within the gamut of their line of work. On the other hand, specialists would have transformed their reputation to becoming must-meet-for advice individuals. For obvious reasons, specialists would have invested both their wealth and time to acquire that status. For example, a TV anchor may possess the requisite skills, experience and communication skills to host shows, a defense analyst would be very adroit at participation in any discussion on military matters as also any issue that may crop up during the course of deliberations. 

Resume writers invariably counsel job hunters to refrain from portraying an impression of being generalists. This is primarily because every employer appreciates any person who specializes in some field or the other and problems encountered in bringing generalists to such a level. However, a number of professionals opine that such a trend is set to be altered as companies increasingly resort to employees well-versed in dual disciplines. The net outcome is that more and more people are being assigned generalist tasks as well and which has resulted in placing increased reliance on outsourcing for specialist work. Companies also save money in following this route. 

People who are standing at the threshold of their careers as generalists perhaps seek to validate various alternatives available to them before they become specialists. They would be able to discern precisely what their ideal charter ought to be, given their experience and skills. Specializing in a particular field would be a later option. To illustrate the point, graduates joining a company would initially be required to work in rotation in various departments of different verticals prior to being selected for employment in a specific field of work.

The opposite spectrum of any career would inevitably have people with skills and outlook,   typical of generalists. And at that level, they would be beneficial too. Research has proved that as one climbs the career ladder, the requirement of general and managerial expertise is enhanced. If you were to follow and apply them during the early stages of your career with adroitness, the prospects of you being elevated to a different level will be heightened tremendously.      

So the big question is, “How do you then play your cards well?” It is essential that you understand that in the long run, things will be in your favor if your wide skill-sets have the potential of some built-in special knowledge. While this would be workable for the large majority, some people who are inclined to delve into the details of a matter may have to stripe and grapple with their jobs and careers. Specialists however, can still enhance their perspectives and acquire ascendancy if they participate in projects, become members of steering outfits, engage in social service activities with the intended objective of gaining practical acquaintances. The necessity to comprehend the requirement to alter your outlook to make it more open and attempt to even alter it needs no emphasis. It will remain the bottom line for sure and an experience of delight for certain. 

They say that intellectually bright individuals with a penchant to learn new things become generalists and intellectually work-shy and intellectuals slack ones go on to become specialists. There is always a temptation to become an expert or a specialist - a supposition and conjecture in society that once and believability is contingent  on in-depth (but shallow) knowledge and potential. However, for those who function and operate in areas where there exist likelihood of imaginativeness and creativity being put to use, being a generalist is definitely more important. And the responsibilities involved thus are intense than anywhere else, their powerful role in business and innovation notwithstanding. There is a need to be prudent and careful here because  though you may be able to come out with great ideas, the need to seek some approval from experts or specialists cannot be dispensed with.