You are managing your career or is it someone else? Most professionals don't have a proactive plan to take their careers to the next level or even higher. Career plans are nothing new, actually have one right now. If your floor is driven passively, however, you're not likely to hit your career goals. A career plan requires no fancy graphs, statistics, pie in the sky the objectives and expectations of income. It should be simply a clear and thoughtful plan to drive your career up the final position that you want to achieve. After all, you spend most of your life engaged in this research. Does not deserve a bit of planning?
Career plans are highly individualized. Don't try to pin you down to a 7-point or slick model. I can give you are the pillars you need to support the plan. As the pillars that allow modern skyscrapers to climb higher and higher, these are the pillars that will raise your career to heights that strive to achieve. Once these pillars are firmly established the career plan will be robust and effective.
Network Its no longer about who you know. Today! that is who knows! Careers cannot be confused with jobs. Most successful careers are the sum of different jobs in different companies. Your talents and skills are an asset. Employers that want to create greater value for their organization. But how valuable is that good if nobody knows exists? A recent study revealed that more than 70% of the jobs are found via the network. This means that short of an aggressive search you'll never know that these positions were opened. Being highly networked by people you don't know can find you through other means.
"Wait a minute." says, "I don't have the time or the inclination to go glad-handing around cocktail parties or functions in the room." The personal touch is extremely powerful, but it is not the only tool they have today. With professional networking websites like LinkedIn can be part of an electronic network, maintain your privacy and still make hundreds of thousands of knowing who you are and what it can bring to an organization. (If you'd like to see what I mean, go to my Profile LinkedIn and you'll see that I'm on the net with over 1,000,000 other professionals). Sites like LinkedIn have the potential to give you global exposure.
Setting goals We knew that this was going to be one of the four pillars. If you do not set them cannot achieve their career goals. Here's a suggestion ... write them down and review them at least once a month. Setting goals, writing and displaying normal have an uncanny way of actually working! If it's a land unknown to you, start small. Let's say you've just started working with your team again. Setting a goal of becoming company CEO next year might be a little too aggressive (depending on the team). Something more realistic would be to get another key system or procedure that will help you to progress within 90 days.
The objectives are vital to any career plan. They are the measuring stick of the effectiveness of your plan. They help your next career move frames, your next job or your next academic achievement. Set a goal for the next 90 days, then the next six months, then next year or even the next five years. It is debatable whether they arrived, unless you know what your destination is.
Marry the change Yes, that's correct-they marry. Until death separates you. Only change that is important for the career plan. Must be your permanent companion. As long as Adam and Eve, change and your career will always be together.
If you're afraid of change you need to throttle back the career plan-and dreams. The professional of the 21st century not only thrives on change, he or she must learn to drive. In the late 1990 I was working for a great company going through another program reengineering. Someone commented that would be happy when things get "back" to normal. Incredulous our CEO told him "this (a change) is the new normal." As it is true that today? The height of your career advancement is directly related to the strength of your marriage to change. Whether it's a new job, a new society, a new form or a new position, career plans should be married to change.
Know yourself You know what you are good at doing. Your career has grown based on the skills and talents they excel. These attributes are taken through the glowing after performance appraisal performance evaluation. Others know your strengths; They also have said how good you are at those things. Attention! You might start believing your own publicity.
Should you capitalize your career strengths. Exploit them, cultivate and develop them, leaving them to stimulate your career. Just don't lose sight of the hidden part of your resume. Is the part that has us all, but doesn't want to admit or even recognize ourselves. Is our skills and talents that are underdeveloped.
We believe that we can rise so high on our strengths and our quota will save any fall. This work sometimes, but it's a dangerous flight plan. Often times that your career will crash "dream job" finally landed. Not recognising or admitting an underdeveloped skill is so dangerous to your career as not leveraging your strengths. Do an inventory of what you do best and make that list. But also do an inventory of what you have no business doing at all. This will keep you from crashing and burning that everyone admires the high performance computer.
Managing a career plan shall adopt such measures as careful and considerate. The individual plan should be a dynamic instrument for propulsion career accomplishments that they wish. Build the floor on four pillars of network, Goal Setting, marrying change and know yourself gives the floor to create a solid foundation for long-term success.
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