By Glenn R. Parker
What could you do if, the very day you have been employed, you knew you'll be unemployed in as low as years? you would search possibilities on your present activity to advance a portfolio of abilities and contacts for you to make your self extra beautiful to destiny employers. Representatives and senators take into consideration their jobs in Congress during this method, in accordance with Glenn R. Parker.
While in workplace, individuals of Congress plan now not only for the subsequent election yet for the subsequent level in their careers. via networking, serving on committees, and championing specific laws, they intentionally collect human capital---expertise, networks, and reputation---which later will provide them bargaining strength within the task marketplace. Parker's research of the postelective careers of greater than 2 hundred former contributors of Congress, either U.S. representatives and senators, who've left workplace over the past part century exhibits that such strategic making plans commonly succeeds. mostly, the human capital those politicians accumulated whereas in workplace elevated their occupational mobility and incomes power.
Capitol Investments bargains a worldly but available research of the purchase and marketability of political abilities. It means that an know-how of the alternate in human capital shapes an officeholder's activities up to the need to win one other election.
Glenn R. Parker is special Professor within the division of Political technology at Purdue University.
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