Have a correct orientation for career success

Any man or woman, notwithstanding the organization he or she works in, wants to move ahead and up the career ladder. If you seek to achieve success in your career, you need to set goals and objectives for yourself; have relevant abilities; and be particularly determined to reach the position that you aspire for.   

Career progress is contingent on the efforts that you make and the hard work that you put in. It is possible only if your orientation is correct. Some prerequisites in this context are: 

• Dexterous demeanour: You conduct and demeanour has to be professional at all times. While your communication skills are of great significance, you must take part in professional workshops, seminars and conferences. Dexterous demeanour implies a strict adherence to laid down norms related to punctuality, dress code and teamwork, to name just a few.
• Novel thinking: Your thoughts and judgments should not be restraining at all. You must imagine and think much beyond laid down parameters and incessantly look for something new. You can create a good impression on your seniors and colleagues alike by offering positive suggestions. Today, no organization can guarantee you a lifetime job and hence you need to be an enterprising individual so that your focus remains on your career. 
• Concern for your work: You need to perform all duties with ceaseless enthusiasm and display your craving for more demanding responsibilities. Doing so will enable you to add to your personal worth. It will also send right pointer to your seniors generate a positive impression on them. 
• Familiarity & skills: Your expertise and proficiency at work are a matter of periodical assessment. You can demonstrate your legerdemain through alacrity, resolve, dedication and truthfulness. It is essential that you boost your self-confidence level and in the process be well-geared to welcome new developments composedly and energetically.
• Image management: You should be aware of your strong-points also make efforts to let the environment know about your accomplishments. People care about what you have done and not what you are going to do. To that extent, while refraining to blow your own trumpet, you must talk about various responsibilities shouldered by you. In this way you will get to be noticed. You earn the right to promote yourself only when you achieve something worthwhile. And when you make your success, howsoever small or big it may be, to the outside world, your prospects of growth further register a boost. 
• Enhancement of interactive capabilities:  People who have commanding interactive capacities are consistently good listeners, intellectual personalities and outstanding doers; they are in fact organizational assets. If you have good and forceful interactive abilities, your boss will routinely look up to you. It should be remembered that seniors are always on the lookout for people who can take load off their shoulders. Therefore, if you happen to gain the attention of your boss, your prospects of growth will multiply manifold for obvious reasons.
• Good networking: Besides widening your professional network, you also need to build up on your social attitude. You stand better chances of success in your career if your workplace has somebody known to you already there. If you have a strong and effective social network, you will get to know about new openings without with ease and should the need for a job or career change arise, you will be better off. 
• Incessant learning: Learning is an eternal process and the more knowledge you acquire, the better your career advancement will be. Through your competence and skills, you can bring about organizational success. It is therefore, essential that you remain abreast with latest methodologies and technological advancements, both in your field of work and outside it. The secret to mastery in any sphere of activity lies in being an eternal learner. 

It goes without saying that you should endeavour to work at a place that offers you great prospects of career advancement. It is pointless to fritter away your talent and experience by working endlessly at one place, more so if you do not visualize any upward growth. It is appropriate to seek from others on what you ought to be doing for your career advancement. Taking help from professionals can also help you to a great extent. Remember that your career advancement is your personal responsibility; you cannot buy it off the shelf in the market. Hence, you simply cannot allow yourself to play around with your career. You must take things seriously and that calls for action today to enable you to have an effect tomorrow.