The G-20s Can’t Go it Alone and Neither Can You

Posted By: Mark Anderson
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In Toronto, the G-20 summit just ended with the developing countries challenged to stimulate their economies while controlling government expenditures, focus on creating jobs and preserving a sustainable future.

With many cross currents, an executive job search, or managing one's career, parallels those challenges the G-20 faces in terms of complexity and uncertainty.

Business is changing rapidly, and monitoring market trends and managing a career or a job change in this uncertain environment requires a plan, constant feedback and interim course corrections to continue to move forward toward achieving your goals. You can't be an ostrich today and hope all the bad news will pass you by while you remain unscathed. Nor, can you sit and wait for the perfect job to appear on some job board.

Woody Allen said, in one of his most famous movie lines, "80 percent of success is showing up" and in many ways that applies to business, career and job search and relates directly to the most important way executive recruiters find top candidates and how executives find 80 percent of the opportunities that lead to career success.

In today's world, you need to get connected and stay connected to be able to seize on opportunities and learn what may be a threat. As we counsel our executive members every day, you need to continuously expand your peer network to gain connections and learn what's going on, where the opportunities lie and what's changing that may impact your course. With the pace of business today, and the global challenges, you need to be "in the know" with resources and connections that lead you to new opportunities and shape your choices.

You can't go it alone any more than a G-20 country can go it alone.

So with the economy starting to recover, our counsel is: Get out there. Go to the places and private networks that can change your future or give you the business and career insurance to help you chart and manage your course and make yourself and your career sustainable. You won't regret that you did!

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Mark Anderson 's avatar Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson is ExecuNet's president and chief economist. An Arjay Miller Scholar, Mark received his MBA from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Yale University. He joined ExecuNet in 1993, with extensive marketing and new product and business development experience, having served as president and founder of A&M Associates, an investment management firm. Mark's corporate leadership experience includes several senior marketing and financial positions with RCA Global Communications (a GE subsidiary) and American Can Company.