TWP 007 - Validating Your Value - The Missing Piece Behind Becoming Irreplaceable in Your Career

The Wandering Pro | Career Podcast By SK NEXUS

People understand the concept of providing value but seldom understand how to validate it. You work day and night being the best asset, but when the time comes, you'll just be another headcount on the chopping block. In today's episode I want to cover how to build a strong base, which can ideally make you irreplaceable at any job...or better yet irresistible for any new opportunities.
Hosted by Saqib Tahir
Read companion summary article: https://sknexus.com/twp007/
Further learning and references
https://sknexus.com/why-professionals-fail/
https://sknexus.com/validating-your-value-as-a-professional/
https://sknexus.com/adding-more-value-to-your-services/
https://sknexus.com/job-perks-and-benefits/

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1. TWP 007 - Validating Your Value - The Missing Piece Behind Becoming Irreplaceable in Your Career (00:00:00)

2. What is Value? (00:00:54)

3. Issues in Pakistani culture related to Value (00:03:42)

4. Risk of not Validating your Value (00:04:21)

5. How to Validate yourself (00:05:31)

6. Purpose of The Wandering Pro Podcast series (00:05:57)

7. Don't work hard, work smart (00:06:18)

8. How to combine Value and Validation (00:06:56)

9. Step 1: Build your network (00:07:32)

10. Identifying the right people (00:08:34)

11. Intention of network building (00:08:59)

12. My Example: Making network in Tech Support (00:09:32)

13. Step 2: Asking the right questions (00:10:52)

14. My Example: How I leveraged good questions (00:11:59)

15. Why knowledge curation is important - call back to episode 5 (00:12:37)

16. Step 3: Get feedback and set goals (00:13:04)

17. Why goal setting is important (00:13:42)

18. My Example: How goals helped me grow (00:13:56)

19. How working smarter is better than working harder (00:14:38)

20. Working smarter doesn't mean you work less, just different (00:15:28)

21. Step 4: Documenting your work (00:16:32)

22. Journaling your work (00:17:07)

23. Gathering data helps you find patterns (00:17:57)

24. My Example: How my documentation habits made me solve for the company (00:18:25)

25. Step 5: Providing solutions to the company (00:19:57)

26. How my passive efforts helped me escape calls (00:21:32)

27. I was an illegal citizen where I worked (00:22:20)

28. Summary: How to validate your value (00:22:34)

29. Don't blame the environment, do it because it is what valuable people do (00:23:41)

30. The All In strategy (00:24:22)

31. Value goes both ways (00:26:46)

32. In the car segment: Layoffs at SadaPay and How Acquisitions work (00:27:58)