Hello world!
This is my first post here, and I thought it would be nice to introduce myself.
Not because I think I am a person with a lot of super interesting stuff to say (that’s up to you to decide), but because any time I read some advice online, I always wonder who is really behind the person giving the advice.
Sometimes people give advice from a position of superiority.
They know it all, or so it looks like.
Until you find out that they are not following their own advice, or worse, they mindlessly copy it from somebody else.
Well, I can already tell you I am not that person.
I made my fair share of mistakes, tried out stuff that failed and others that went better.
I keep doing that, btw.
The important stuff is that at different points in my life, I have been a job seeker, an employee, a freelance, a business partner, a recruiter, and an investor.
Today I am still in some of those roles (business partner, freelance and investor, to be specific), and I can see the job markets from the perspective of these roles.
Most of the time, I read threads here and there (mostly Reddit and LinkedIn) and it seems there is an all-out war.
Recruiters complaining about job seekers disappearing after an interview, and the other way around.
Employees that are paid peanuts for long hours and blame the entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs complain about how few employees are doing if compared to what they are actually doing.
This could go on forever, but I can sum it up with one sentence: everybody lacks an understanding of the other parties involved in the job market.
I wanted to include also the investor perspective because each of us, like it or not, is an investor.
Maybe we don’t invest money, but for sure each day we invest our time and our attention in a very specific way, for a variety of reasons.
Getting distracted, reaching a goal, find the next moonshot. Whatever.
I noticed that people can be extremely strategic when thinking about winning games or finding the next winning crypto, but they don’t put even one-tenth of the same strategic thinking into their career.
A part of our life that, like it or not, will take most of our time awake until we can afford (or want to) retire.
In this blog, I want to share practical advice on how to improve your “Human Capital”.
A jargon expression that stands for the skills, knowledge, and experience that can make you more or less value on the market today.
Anything that can make you be successful in the current job market, in other words.
Note that "successful" here doesn't have a fixed meaning.
It can be:
- Moving to a well-paid job
- Testing if your own project has the potential to become your career
- Find yourself in a position where you can work fewer hours or only on the projects you love.
No judgment here. Whatever works for you and makes you happy works for me, too.
I will be happy if reading any of these posts will make you only 10% closer to your final goal, or it will get you started on something you have been procrastinating for a long time.
Heck, I have been starting this after procrastinating for months.
That’s all for today.
Stay tuned for more and let me know which are the questions on how to improve your human capital, aka winning the career game on your own terms.
