Scope

I had an interesting conversation with a coworker at Citigroup this week. He’s been successfully consulting for close to 18 years now and loving it. By successfully,I mean consistently working. I’m not really certain how we started talking about it but he had some great insight on staying employable and advancing when it’s your job to go from job to job. He broke it down like this: Scope.

Scope is defined as the breadth or opportunity to function. Scope keeps you employable. Having a diverse skillset gives an individual a much more vast range of opportunities and projects to choose from. Becoming an expert in a field or technology is great but ultimately limiting. Narrow but deep technical skills decrease marketability by limiting a person’s opportunities. There are opportunities but few companies have a need for very specific skills and they’re usually limited to specific projects. Once that project is wrapped up,it’s on to the next thing. It might be a week or it might be a year but once it’s done it’s done.

Always take the project doing something or working with some technology with which you have no experience; even if it’s less money. Learning a new skill will pay you back,with dividends. Diversify and be able to tackle anything.

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