Property and employability

Don't worry - I will soon stop ranting about market value people being goods and customers for each other, but nevertheless, I just need to put forward a single phrase, because I think it fits so well into the context. In all its simplicity, it reads as follows:

You own your own employability.

- or in other words: you yourself are the sole responsible for making yourself interesting for an employer. We have not reached the point where I can expect my employer to find a new and interesting piece of work for me at the moment when there is no longer any need for the effort I currently provide.
I myself must control to which extent I am worth recruiting and for what - that's the freedom I have when I offer myself to the market - my market value is my property and it is my task to manage it as good as possible.
- and yes, I would like to acknowledge that this is the same as saying that one is only employed by an employer as long as the relationship between employer and employee makes sense. At the moment when this is no longer the case, the product is not good enough for the customer's needs - and then there is no longer any deal.
(Translated from Ejendom og ansættelighed, originally published September 14th, 2013)