A good knowledge
of yourself to include your likes, dislikes, penchants and preferences;
availability of necessary resources; and possession of appropriate skillsets
are essential for you to do well in your life and career alike. You could well
be in any job or pursuit, sans any discernment of your strengths and weaknesses
as also aspects that you can excel at or improve upon, your career advancement
may not be possible.
You need to select your career with care and having
selected one, you should do proper planning. All this calls for prudence and
farsightedness. But despite planning, there will be glitches and hitches as you
move ahead in your career; and which will call for serious contemplations. You
will have to take bold decisions – some under uncertain circumstances. Your
capacity to make sound decisions will depend on what information you are privy
to at that particular time. At the same time, you should also know what
knowledge you do not possess and hence make efforts to first get it and then
evaluate it for its credibility.
Career planning generally comprises three phases –
selection, planning for the way ahead and assessing an employment offer. While
the first two could do without much of decision making, the third phase definitely
calls for good decision making prowess. You could also decide to change a
career and that would necessarily entail understanding what you as a distinct entity
signify and manifest. You should thus know in detail about yourself, what you
stand for, what you like or have a penchant for and where you are or what
precisely is your current status in your career journey. It will be of no use
if you go in for an employment without knowing these important facets of your
personality.
There are eight fundamental initiatives that you
should take for your career advancement and all of them are highly decisive
ones. They are:
· Assess your propensities: It
is in your interests to be aware of your strengths – be they execution of
professional assignments, social obligations, communication skills or grasping
power. You should be clear about your likes and dislikes because it is only
such knowledge that facilitates strategizing and charting a schedule for career
advancement.
· Estimate your legerdemains: You
can always acquire new skills and improve upon existing ones. But whatever you
are cut out for is innate. However, betterment of your expertise is brought
about by learning and development programmes followed by practical training. It
is here that your skilfulness at grasping new things come in. The faster you
acquire such additional knowledge, the faster will be your career advancement.
· Identify
your individual élan: No two individuals are alike. Each person has exclusive
mannerisms, way of communications and response mechanisms to different
situations. You will be always at ease when you have to act in harmony with
your individual flairs and hence it is essential that you know them well. This
will also facilitate effective and constructive interactions with people.
· Ascertain your interests: With
the passage of time, you can decide on issues that need to be the focus of your
attention as a matter of routine. In other words, you get to be clear of what
interests you and what does not. It is thus easy for you to make use of your
abilities and skills towards your career advancement.
· Appreciate your own background: It
is not easy to erase impressions and habits formed on account of your past
circumstances, background, childhood and education. However, it is essential
that you understand how in the backdrop of such conditions, you as a person has
been stimulated and moulded. Such a comprehension will help you to apply your
make-up in your efforts to move ahead in your career.
· Bond with your values: Your
ability to judge situations for their veracity and effects; and people for
their knowledge and character traits is triggered by the philosophies,
ideologies and values that you stand for. That is how you are able to
distinguish matters that are principled or[H1]
unjust and workable or impractical. You are thus geared better to able to put
across your perspectives and standpoints to others. In the context of your
career, you can utilise such abilities in consonance with other stakes to heighten
your plans and preferences for your career advancement.
Remember that your career advancement is contingent on
the targets that you seek to achieve. You can always change your objectives;
such an alteration can be facilitated by your inherent attributes. However,
there is no denying the fact that it is you and you alone who will have to
evaluate ongoing developments for their effects on your career advancement. But
more importantly, it is essential that you have an open mind towards success
because you will invariably attain whatever your mind permits you to attain.
Your own resolution to move ahead and up in your career will count the maximum.
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