Do well in your career

Your career objectives need to extend into the distant future and be supported by a plan to attain them. However, micro-management of your career calls for a number of small steps to facilitate steady career advancement. Such steps may appear to be trivial at first sight but they have a colossal effect in the long run.

To start with, you have to be fully convinced that the line being trailed by you or likely to be trailed by you is to your liking. Your career has to be your own choosing otherwise the prospects of you delighting in it will be bleak. The job that you undertake to do has to be to in harmony with your penchants and proclivities. Going to work day in and day out but sans any liking for it actually serves no purpose and will lead to disinterest and disenchantment. On the contrary, when you love what you do as a career, you will put in sustained efforts towards your growth and eventually towards the accomplishment of your set objectives.

Some simple but highly important steps that you must take towards your career advancement are:

· Be frank & say your piece: You should never let yourself be intimidated into muteness. It is essential that nobody else other than you define you. And towards this, your lips and mouth are there for a purpose. You should say your piece and say it candidly. At work, you will have several opportunities to speak up. You must take an active part in all deliberations and conferences; doing so will manifest your zeal and concern for your organisation. You must make advance preparations for all events. The points that you put across should be pertinent and in consonance with the aim behind such events. You should not hold back any recommendations or ideas that you may have that can serve as value additions. 

· Always be ready to walk an extra mile: It should always be your endeavour to do more what is required. Remember that the distance between someone who accomplishes his goals steadily and those who are the run-of-the mill type is the extra mile. If you remain in recluse or hide behind curtains, career advancement will never come to you. You have to make your presence felt. It is inescapable to shed any reservations that you may have in helping out others at their work or willingly accepting additional tasks. You may perhaps not realise it, but doing so is very important to remain in limelight. Success is virtually and entirely contingent on effort and tenacity. And the best part of walking the extra mile is that when you walk the extra mile, you have at your disposal new dimensions with little or no bottlenecks.    

· Network & share your thoughts and knowledge: If you have a name carved for yourself, there is no doubt that you will not advance in your career. You can build a name for yourself through networking. There will a number of seminars, workshops and other events; each one of them will have immense potentials for widening your contact base. You will thus open up yourself to greater knowledge – both acquisition and sharing. All said and done, interactions and dialogues will broaden your horizon; and the knowledge you gain can be gainfully applied at your work. The road to career advancement will be obstacle free for you.

· Make your presence felt & become a guiding light: When you help out your co-workers, you exchange ideas. A good idea can always be incorporated by you in your working methodology. Periodic consultations and dialogues with your colleagues will get noticed for sure and you will come to be regarded as a good team player. You need to make your presence felt and this is achievable if you engage yourself in various organisational activities, including participation in thinking cliques. The more number of associations that you have, the more number of opportunities you will encounter and all of them will point the way to your career advancement. You will be able to display your fortes and in the process, you will find that many people will come to you for guidance. As a guiding light, the focal point of your efforts should be to make useful contributions for organisational growth. And when you do that, your company too will go all out for your career advancement. You will become indispensable.

There is nobody who is working and does not seek to advance in his career. If you have to really advance in your career, you will have to get out and look for situations that you desire and if you are unable to lay hands on the, create them. You should set for yourself small objectives for self-improvement and headway objectives. Towards their accomplishment, you will have to develop explicit but sound schemas. There is no way but to always remain on the correct path so that whenever an opportunity comes into clutching distance, you can grasp it and take full benefit of it. But your fidelity will matter the most.