Personal Career Goals

Once I am secured in a position, the two tactics that I would use to succeed in my employment are to avoid career disaster by incorporating perpetual career management and keeping up my networking. The best time to work on your career is when your job is secure. Even if you’re very happily employed today, you never know what may happen tomorrow! To avoid a career disaster, you should incorporate the concept of “Perpetual Career Management” into your professional life. Vital tasks like keeping your success stories up to date, or networking regularly with professionals in your industry, should be incorporated into your routine whether the economy is good or bad – and whether you feel you need to or not. Instead of focusing completely on my job, I will focus on managing my career at all times, regardless of where the economy or job market happens to be.
I believe this is the key that will help me to chop months off my next job search, if I have to , significantly boost my salary, perhaps get me promoted faster, and never worry again about job security or layoffs. Being successful in a profession covers a lot of aspects. Being successful in a career does not only mean being paid at the end of the month and getting appraisals at the end of a year or more. Every individual who is in a profession should have career goals and some objectives that are over and above their day to day objectives of earning and working. There are severals goals I plan to achieve in my career and it goes back a long way to the way I was raised. There is a saying, "God bless the child that got his own". I would love to own my own business one day. This is one of my career goals. Every individual who is in a profession should have career goals and some objectives that are over and above their day to day objectives of earning and working. Once I have set up these goals I have to work on achieving them and come up with a project plan to reach and achieve them in a conclusive manner.