Career Planning Tips
Your 9 most important career planning tips
1. Never Stop Learning
Life-long learning is your keyword.
The world is constantly changing, and
everybody is looking for new ways of doing business.
If you have decided that your current skills are good enough,
you have also decided that your current job is good enough.
But if you want a career in the future, you should add regular updates to your
skills and knowledge.
2. Ask, Listen And Learn
A good listener can learn a lot.
Listen to your co-workers, your boss, and your superiors. You can learn a lot
from their experience.
Ask about issues that interest you, and listen to what they say. Let them
tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.
Most people will love to be your free tutor.
3. Fulfill Your Current Job
Your current job might be best place to start your career.
It is often very little that
separates successful people from the average. But nothing comes free.
If you do your job well and fulfill your responsibilities, this is often the
best way to start a new career.
Talk to your supervisor about things you can do. Suggest improvements. Offer
your help when help is needed. In return ask for help to build a better career.
It is often possible - right inside your own organization - especially if you
have proved to be a valued employee.
4. Build Your Network
Your next career step might arise from your contact network.
Did you know that more than 50% of all jobs are obtained from contact
networks?
If you have a good contact network, it is also a good place to discover
future careers, to explore new trends, and to learn about new
opportunities.
Spend some time building new contacts, and don't forget to maintain the ones
you already have.
One of the best ways to get serious information from your network is to
regularly ask your contacts how they are, what they do, and what is new about
their careers.
5. Identify Your Current Job
Your current job should be identified, not assumed.
Make sure you don't work with tasks you assume are important. This is waste
of time and talent.
When you start in a new job, talk to your superior about your priorities. If
you're not sure about what is most important, then ask him. And ask him again.
Often you will be surprised about the differences between what you assume, and
what is really important.
6. Identify Your Next Job
Your dream job must be identified.
Before you start planning your future career, be sure you have identified
your dream job.
In your dream job, you will be doing all the things you enjoy, and none of
the things you don't enjoy. What kind of job would that be?
Do you like or dislike having responsibility for other employees. Do you like
to work with technology or with people? Do you want to run your own business? Do
you want to be an artist, a designer or a skilled engineer? A manager?
Before building your future career your goal must be identified.
7. Prepare Yourself
Your dream might show up tomorrow. Be prepared.
Don't wait a second. Update your CV now, and continue to update it regularly.
Tomorrow your dream job may show up right before your nose. Prepare for it
with a professional CV and be ready to describe yourself as a valuable object to
anyone that will try to recruit you.
If you don't know how to write a CV, or how to describe yourself, start
learning it now.
8. Pick The Right Tools
Pick the tools you can handle.
You can build your future career using a lot of different tools. Studying at
W3Schools is easy. Taking a full master degree is more complicated.
You can add a lot to your career by studying books and tutorials (like the
one you find at W3Schools). Doing short time courses with certification tests
might add valuable weight to your CV. And don't forget: Your current job is
often the most valuable source of building new skills.
Don't pick a tool that is too heavy for you to handle!
9. Realize Your Dreams
Put your dreams into action.
Don't let a busy job kill your dreams. If you have higher goals, put them
into action now.
If you have plans about taking more education, getting a better job, starting
your own company or something else, you should not use your daily job as a
"waiting station". Your daily job will get more and more busy, you will be
caught up in the rat race, and you will burn up your energy.
If you have this energy, you should use it now, to realize your dreams.
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