Career Management & Career Planning

Career management may sound like something that only high-fliers or graduates should be thinking about. But, don't be put off by thinking that is the case, if you want to remain securely employed, get future opportunities to do different things or even earn more money, then introducing career management and career planning are something YOU should be thinking about. My career advice to you is this: whatever job you do today, it could be more interesting and more fulfilling if you put some of these principles into practice.

Six Top Tips For Career Management

These six tips on career management will help you to think about what you can do for yourself and protect your own long term job security.

If you are the type of person who gets bored with doing the same thing over and over, you are exactly the one who would benefit most from career planning like this.

You can manage your career by pulling these career planning tips together and making it part of your routine.

Top 6 Career Management Tips

1. Make sure you have a copy of your job description and understand exactly what your employer expects from you. Become very good at your job before trying to get credit for tasks NOT in your job description.
   
   

2. Understand your contribution to previous and future employers based on your achievements. Are you clearly able to quantify exactly what difference you made in terms of added value, cost savings or extra revenue? It's too easy to think because you were part of a successful business your contribution was automatically good. Be clear what information is known about you in your employee review.
   
   

3. Know your market worth and discuss precisely what you have to offer in very specific terms. Do you know how to do this? The most common failure amongst interview candidates, whether internal or external, is to believe that their track record "speaks for itself".
   
   

4. Maintain your motivation and persistence which will pay off eventually. Even though you consider yourself to be absolutely the right person for the job which has "your name written all over it" you may still be turned down. Take the trouble to understand where and why work opportunities are increasing or declining in your organization.
   
   

5. Do what’s needed even if it doesn't work first time. Can you pick yourself up and carry on, learning from your mistakes? Use the experience to learn better ways of working and continually strive to sort it all out.
   
   
6. Support others so that you build your network of contacts. If you give something of yourself to others while they are pushing ahead with their careers you can be sure the compliment will be returned at some stage further down the line.
   

These tips can make a real difference to how you think about your job and your future as an employee. Career planning and career development should be something you think about regularly whatever job you do now.

Although career management may sound like something that only high-fliers or graduates think about, don't be put off by assuming that is the case. If you would like to remain securely employed, be given future opportunities to do different things or even earn more money, then introducing career management and career planning into your schedule are something YOU should be thinking about. My career advice to you is this: whatever job you do today, it could be more interesting and more fulfilling if you put some of these principles into practice.

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