Career Management
The career management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Career Management.Includes how to:• Assess your career goals• Create and follow an exciting career plan• Make yourself visible for your ideal job• Deliver the perfect interview• Get yourself noticed and promoted, or go it alone
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Career Management
Secrets
The experts tell all!
Carolyn Boyes
Table of Contents
Learn how to manage your career
3.2 Leave a lasting impression
3.8 Be visible inside your company
4.1 Align yourself with your organization
Most people fall into a career by accident. They might enjoy success or find themselves stuck in a job thatâs not fulfilling. By contrast, if you manage your career you take control of what you do, whether thatâs climbing the corporate ladder, starting your own business or perhaps going part-time.
I have spent more than a decade helping people all over the world decide what to do with their lives. Many of the people I coach have already worked for years, and some are just starting out. Surprisingly, it doesnât seem to matter what age people are, or where they come from or how successful they have been. Most people face the same sort of issues in trying to decide what to do next. They generally havenât spent enough time focusing on what work suits them best, what their long and short term goals might be and how best to put these into action.
Even some of those who are successful know some of the secrets but forget others. I am no different. I had a successful first career in international business before making a career change, and I had to find out many of these secrets for the first time. Thatâs why you will find 50 secrets here, divided into seven easy-to-follow chapters:
⢠Take control. Suggests that you step back and take a look afresh at who you are and whatâs important to you.
⢠Dare to dream. How to create goals that are right for you.
⢠Be a rising star. Lets you into the secrets of how to get promoted and rise within an organization.
⢠Market yourself. Shows the importance of making yourself known in your career in order to achieve what you want.
⢠Create a life balance. Helps you explore what to do if stress is getting to you and you want a change.
⢠Be ready for change. Gives you key pointers for any successful career change. If you want to change or are forced to change careers this is what to do next.
⢠Be entrepreneurial. Explains what will make you successful if you decide to leave paid employment and start up on your own.
If you follow these seven chapters of secrets, you will know how to manage your career sucessfully.
Create an achievable career plan and you are already on your way to a well-managed career for the rest of your life.
Start your career management by getting to know yourself. Applying the secrets in this first chapter will allow you to take a step back and think about not only what you are good at but also what motivates you. You can use this knowledge at every stage of your career to plan your next steps.
Do you take responsibility for your career or do you let your career just happen to you? In the old way of doing things you would leave school or university and expect to have a job for life. But with a changing world you need to stop and take stock.
The world is changing so rapidly now that there is no guarantee you will have a job for life, nor that the company you join will continue to exist, nor even that your industry will still exist in the next decade or so. There is only one thing you can do in a world like this, and that is to be an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurs assume that they will have to make their own fortune (and I mean fortune in the sense of both luck and money). Entrepreneurs donât let things happen to them, they make things happen for them. This can be expressed by an equation: cause > effect.
one minute wonder Take a step back. Think about where you are in your career right now. Decide to make your career successful and fulfilling every day. You are in charge.
âThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mindâ
