Imperative initiatives to succeed in your career

        How do you plan to address your career and all its issues?

Are you content with whatever you have achieved or do you want to switch careers?

Do you have plans to move to different organisation that offers you a raise?

If the answers to the above questions are in the affirmative, then you want an environment that is more challenging, offers greater responsibilities. You also have on your mind plans to to acquire new skills.

It is essential that you understand what your strongpoints and capabilities are. If you fail to do so, you will be prompted to do a career change. The foregoing notwithstanding, initiatives on your part that will boost the prospects of your career are:

• Evaluate your aspirations pragmatically: It is essential that you understand where you stand today and envision the position that you seek to be in a couple of years from now. If you work hard, things will be smooth sailing for you. However, to make certain that your career journey is indeed smooth all throughout, you will have to secure a good job. This will call for being alert at all times. displaying a composed conduct 24/7, maintaining calm and remaining unnerved. You will also need to understand yourself well. In the light of the foregoing, the first initiative that should be forthcoming is to make efforts to know what you are cut out for. You penchants and capabilities will dictate the choice of organisations that you should be joining and the appointment that you ought to secure. Towards this end, you will have to really work hard, carry out extensive research and examine in detail different career options available to you before embarking on one.    
• Be confident & move ahead: Before you star moving ahead, you should understand in detail the resources that you require to take you to the final destination of your career journey. In this context, extensive planning will be required so that you are able to fructify your dreams.Your plan should include solutions to what, where, how, who, why and when issues as pertinent to a period of ten years. It could well entail gaining an employment, acquiring additional educational qualifications, starting a business venture or simply going around the world. The aim of making a plan is to maintain focus on your dings by having an arrangement for execution. The journey will have its ups and downs; and you will have to modify your plans from time to time. And of course there will also be pleasant developments that will usher in other changes as well, necessitating alterations to your plan. You may embark on something altogether new and what you never thought of initially. That is what the spice of life is all about; you will realise that mid-term corrections will bring about satisfying expansions too.  
• Formulate an all-inclusive action plan: Once you are ready with your plan, you will have to identify how precisely you will take the first step put and thereafter maintain momentum of your advancement. It is all about putting your plan in place by deciding on the best option available to you. In all probability, certain actions that you have planned to take may have already been taken by you. However, there will be many that you have not deliberated upon at all; they are the ones that you should be focussing your efforts on now. Career success demands time, judgment and vigour. If you have a mentor, you will be guided in all your actions. Any association with a mentor is always precious and you should go all out to clarify any and all doubts that you may have.  

       It is important that you catalogue and remember every instance of success that you accomplish; and when success does not come your way, it should not be a cause of any disappointment. If at all, some disappointment comes your way, you should work harder still to beat it. To put it differently, you should remain in firm control over yourself, your career and your plans. Your focus should always be to excel in each and every sphere that you work in.

Remember that it is not that easy to recognise opportunities; clutching them is all the more difficult because they will never coax you to come forward. You have to be anticipate opportunities and be present at the right place at the right time to grab them. Thereafter, you will have to work your way up!