Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

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by WH  from Harvard university
 Look for opportunities outside your domain.We are increasingly not defined by the discipline on our diploma. The majority of the positions considered most in-demand today didn’t even exist when I finished college, and this evolution of the job market is only accelerating. You have a range of skills, not just one, and it’s likely that you are qualified to contribute in many ways. If you’re a manager, consider unconventional hiring as a deliberate tactic to shake up your business. Lisa Aumiller is a veterinarian who took a market risk and started a mobile veterinary service, which after a few years now tops $5 million in annual revenue and employs over 60 people. But it’s who Aumiller hires that is most disruptive: She consistently looks outside her domain, hiring employees from fashion, chemical manufacturing, franchising, and other disciplines. She likes people who can think outside the box of veterinary medicine and offer fresh perspectives from expertise acquired in other fields. And she likes to hire people who’ve been fired — for the right reasons — because she feels her business needs employees who are willing to challenge the status quo. Willing, in fact, to challenge her.

When people innovate in their career paths, disruptive energy is generated within teams, firms, and industries. Conversely, without making market risk–embracing moves like these, careers can stagnate — and businesses along with them.

Ask yourself: Do I see an unoccupied niche to fill or an unmet need that could be addressed by a change in my situation? It might be a change within your present firm — every business has unoccupied niches and needs that aren’t being met, large and small. Or you may want to move to a different firm, or even a different domain. Maybe the role you want exists and maybe it doesn’t, as it awaits someone to champion an idea and sell it.

Disruptors don’t just look for unmet needs; they look for unmet needs that mesh with what they do well — a position of personal strength. What is it that you do well that others in your sphere do not, and where can you put that superpower into play? That is your market risk opportunity. Don’t be afraid to take the long shot.