Twelve Ways to Manage Your

Career



1. Establish a positive working relationship with those around you. It’s up to you to take the initiative.

2. Know your organization's goals and purposes. In this way, you can help the organization achieve them and in so doing bring credit to yourself.

3. Build a network of constructive, successful people in your workplace and communicate with them frequently.

4. Build a relationship with your boss based on genuine mutual interests, abilities and goals.

5. Establish a reputation for reliability by completing your assignments well and on time.

6. Record and communicate your contributions and achievements. They are the building blocks of your career.

7. Recognize the contributions of others.

8. Never present a problem without being able to present a viable solution.

9. Your greatest strengths are your passport to career success. Practice them, build on them and plan your career around them.

10. Continue to build and maintain your career contact network. Remember that the average person changes careers six or more times.

11. Continue your personal and professional growth and try never to be without a goal.

12. Remember that there is always a next step.


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