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:

1. Proactively engage with your employer about your career goals, and discuss to create a career development plan, involving your manager in the process.
2. Learn the short term and long term skill requirements of your goals, focusing on education, skills and experience requirements of the job.
3. Actively boost and develop your knowledge of your career options by engaging to informal meeting with your colleagues and managers.
4. Do not hesitate to volunteer in challenging projects. Increase your visibility by identifying and proposing solutions to organizational problem.
5. 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.