Tips for Strategic Career Management
What does an employer look for an employee? Employers want employees who provide best value of themselves and their work. Being successful in a demanding workplace requires a strategic career plan that will help you develop and boost effective workplace value.
Here are some tips in improving your career management strategies:
- Proactively engage with your employer about your career goals, and discuss to create a career development plan, involving your manager in the process.
- Learn the short term and long term skill requirements of your goals, focusing on education, skills and experience requirements of the job.
- Actively boost and develop your knowledge of your career options by engaging to informal meeting with your colleagues and managers.
- Do not hesitate to volunteer in challenging projects. Increase your visibility by identifying and proposing solutions to organizational problem.
- Find different career development and job opportunities available in your company such as professional training course and seminars.
Having a job to support your needs is good, but creating a career will help in maximizing your opportunities for success.