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Conducting a Self-Evaluation After Getting Fired
Sometimes life is hard and when you get fired, it gets even harder. In a country where employee turnover is high
and there are no laws to protect you at your work place, potentially anybody is at risk to be fired. In general,
that is true, but companies usually only fire a person that has done his or her job improperly, or is not qualified
for his or her job any more.
Therefore after you get fired, it is time that you conduct a self-evaluation. First of all, you need to make sure
you know the reason why you have been fired. Do not just assume, you know why you have been fired. Make sure that
your employer tells you the exact reasons why he has fired you. A self-evaluation as to whether the employer is
right and whether you might have to work on yourself can only be done after you know why the company has told you
to leave.
If it was tardiness and absence of work that has gotten you fired, you need to be self critical enough to see that
you need to be on time and be at work every day that you are not taking a vacation day. Keeping a job means playing
by the rules and these rules do include times that you have to be a t work if you want to keep the job.
When your boss told you that you are not accomplishing your work or you are not qualified for the position, think
back and try to find out why he might have said that. Did you deliver your work on time? Was it correct, mostly
without any problems and errors? If that is not the case, then perhaps your boss was right and maybe you were not
qualified enough to do the job. It might be that you need some more training or some more classes at the university
to be able to do your job right. Or maybe you have just chosen a job that is not for you.
When you are conducting that self-evaluation, make sure you are not too hypercritical. If it clearly was your fault
that you got fired, you need to improve yourself and the personality traits that have led to the firing. Sometimes
even though your boss gave you an explanation why you have been fired, you might not agree with the reason you have
gotten fired from your company. Yes, sometimes these reasons might not be right. Since this is a society where
anybody can get fired, maybe you have been fired because your boss did not like you and he made up some dubious
reason for firing you. This is why you have to conduct a self-evaluation to make sure if what you were told is the
truth.
A self-evaluation might also lead you to the conclusion that you need to choose a different profession than the one
you have been in. Maybe it took to get you fired to ser you in the right direction and at some point in your future
you might actually thank that boss of yours that he had fired you.
Otherwise you might have never found the job that you were destined for and would have been miserable doing the job
you were doing. Unhappy employees are not good for a company and some bosses are good enough to realize that.
Whatever the reason is that you got fired, make sure you find the reason and check with yourself how much truth
lies within that reason and do you have to change to be a better employee and be able to keep your next
job.
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