MOVING BEYOND THE GOD FATHER I got a job a year ago in a manager that I thought was unprofessional. I was fresh from college and during the interview, one of the directors of my prospect employer noticed that my referee was an influential person in the public sector. He later called me to ask if I could introduce me to the gentleman. In the same week, I was called to sign a contract for my job without going through the next interview like other candidates. I linked the two, but I am begging to feel like I was not employed for my worth. Am I too harsh on myself? Answer It is unfortunate that employers and especially influential members in prospect employer companies often turn professional recruitment into avenues to trade off for personal interests. You are a victim of that. It is commendable that your values can prompt you to complain about it. Many others would be celebrating. You are not sure if you won the interview and you cannot assess your worth in the job market. You have not mentioned the relationships that may exist with those that know what happened. May be it is a consistent culture within the organization, and your employment was the director’s turn to be a beneficiary. Either way, you are a professional and you should be concerned about your career beyond this particular company. You are already in this job and whether it would be prudent to resign, is a matter that depends on the extreme details of your value system. You can consider giving up the job on the basis of the morals that support your recruitment or challenge the level of competence expected of the job. Many people who get in the jobs through backdoors struggle with how to drop the god- father syndrome. They tend to feel safe and therefore laid back on the expected results. They hold their supervisors at ransom and wield the threat of the god-fathers wrath for anybody that tries to make them uncomfortable. This is not a a healthy approach to developing you profession. The first thing that you need to deal with is to de-link any personal involvement with your god-father. Make the relationship professional and culture your supervisor to handle your ordinarily. When idle, seek to be allocated responsibilities and when wrong genuinely apologize. Be self-driven and carry out your tasks as instructed. To bridge the gap in your knowledge, relate well with those that were recruited on merit. This will help you tactfully learn from them to improve your performance. Where necessary, be assigned duties under their guidance without feeling inferior. This could be the best way to avoid the defensive attitude about your recruitment. Be an open person. Your likeability plays key role in the way you are perceived within the company. Consider volunteering for tasks that are not assigned to you, but which may improve your knowledge and skills. It is equally important to seek feedback on your performance periodically. This will provide feedback on what people think about your progress and whether there are still elements of negative perception among staff. Eventually, you need to bring out the ability of your employer in creating and empowering a work class competent staff. That this may work should, however, not justify that you need godfathers forever.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:32:16 +0000
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