Emerge a champion in your career

The job market of today, with all its ups and downs, is a bucketful of opportunities for everybody. If at all there is somebody who needs to exploit prospects to ensure that you emerge a champion in your career, is you. Your initiative is essential to let you be in firm control of your career so that you do well in your career. Tin order to successfully achieve all your career objectives and put all your capabilities to gainful use, it is essential that you understand each and every basic requirement that contributes to your career success. 

You cannot afford to waste your life living in doubts and apprehensions. And your career is like a long race – you are there on the tracks in the field, waiting for the firing shot and all set to take off. You cannot run blindfolded and hope that you will win the race. To put it differently, you ought to be fully prepared, with all the goals that you set for yourself unambiguous. While your academic qualifications, experience and present work location are significant factors that could herald career success, it is your performance on ground that matters the most. The three basic attributes of performance that make you win your career race are:

• It never goes unnoticed and unacknowledged: All organisations that perform are prosperous setups, though there may be some odd aberrations. Unlike iron, gold never rusts; similarly performers do not lose their worth and their value is always set to register an upswing. The value of gold never decreases, though it may tend to be at a plateau for some period of time. But with the passage of time, it increases manifold, particularly in the long term. The fact is that no company will let go a good performer by a person with more experience. A good performer will invariably be recognised, retained and promoted. The way you acquit yourself at work will manifest your stalwartness, tenacity and competence. Your performance alone will count in your quest for excellence and efforts to do well in your career.
• It is not neither negotiable nor exchangeable: Surveys conducted have concluded that in any establishment, around three-quarters of the productivity are on account of the efforts by one-quarter of the employees. Companies are always keen to have such performers on their rolls; Even if there are adverse conditions, this category of people is always noticed and recruited. The balance people whose performance level is not as high are not seen as positive performers and hence their job protection is always subject to perils. It is therefore, no wonder that many employees are retrenched or superseded. On the other hand, good performers receive acclaim and promotions.
• It is the only decisive factor impacting success: Will you ever pay more than the marked price for anything? Will you ever purchase a substandard item? The answers are obviously no, particularly if there are other options available to you to get value for your money. Today, the working atmosphere in all companies and organisations is highly ambitious and aggressive; and it is only good performers find a place to hang on. Therefore, if you discharge your duties well, meaning you contribute to efficiency and effectualness, you will for certain witness career advancement.  Career progress implies moving up in the pecking order of any setup and entails acquiring a greater capacity to deal with demanding responsibilities so that profitability registers an upswing. Your good work gets acknowledged and you get to be called by the higher management and thus are in the loop for planning and implementation. Your growth is consequently facilitated.   

It is inescapable on your part to make certain that you do not lower down your aims and ambitions to match your performance. On the contrary, you need to ensure that your performance is bettered to be in harmony with your objectives and aspirations. And to be able to accomplish this, it is necessary that you should anticipate the picture of success that you seek and then work wholeheartedly to attain it in real realistic terms. It should always be kept in mind that your career success depends largely on the way you work and go about; and that setting objectives or dreaming about success alone will not help you. The price of success is always devotion, toil and total commitment towards the things that you want to happen to you.