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Strengths: How to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Part 1.
In this article I’ll be talking about your strengths and how to apply them for greater career satisfaction. To get the most out of this information, be prepared to jot down some thoughts as we go along. First, I’ll help you get clearer on your strengths and then I’ll give you an initial plan of action for how to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Let’s dive in talking about how to define your top three strengths. You probably have more than three but we’re just going to focus on three to have a manageable number. If you want to add more to your list you’re certainly...
read moreWhat’s Your Career Status? Part 2
In our most recent blog post, we talked uncovered which career status is most on track for you. Now I’ll cover specific action steps you can take to move forward. Status 1: “I’m pretty happy in my career right now and want to keep things moving forward well.” Recommended Action Steps: Articulate clear growth goals. This is important because in a conversation with your manager, if you say you want to progress, don’t rely on him or her to have the ideas for you because quite realistically they won’t. They have lots on their plate and they’re hoping you’re going to come...
read moreWhat’s your career status? Part 1
What’s your career status? Thinking this through is a valuable starting step to help you work through identifying what you need to do to you achieve greater satisfaction in your career. In this discussion, I’ll be covering six categories of career status. I first want you to take a guess at where you stand, and then we’re going to go a little deeper into examining what those statuses look like. In a later blog, I’ll give you an energizing plan for each of those status areas. This is important because the better you’re awareness, the better your choices. And as you make better...
read moreOur 20 best tips ever…and here are 16-20
Tip # 16: Update your successes. In Tip #8 (earlier blog) I suggested about documenting your successes and having a handful of those ready to go. Once you get that started, every time you have a little win, I want for you to jot it down somewhere. Keep a record. This will give you easy access to content that can help you sell yourself more successfully in performance reviews, as you might be updating your resume, and also great content for job interviews. Just get in the habit of noting what happens, how you made it happen, and what were the results, those metrics around how did you help...
read moreOur 20 best tips ever…and here are 10-15
Tip #10: Optimize your LinkedIn profile. Typically, only about 20% of positions will get advertised or posted somewhere, yet 90% of job seekers are pretty much only applying to those job ads. The other 80% are getting filled through networks, and LinkedIn is by far the biggest one. If you think about you needing to buy a new pair of shoes, you can now log onto Amazon.com, type in your size, heel height, color, style, etc. It’ll pull up options, you can then read reviews, and you can decide, “Do I want to take a chance on trying these on?” That’s very much the same...
read moreOur 20 best tips ever…and here are 6-9!
Tip #6: Prepare for interviews before you will even get a call for one, because interviews can pop up at any time, especially when you get your focus defined. Then you’re going to start having more awareness for what opportunities exist in the market, for people that you want to be connected to, etc. You’re just going to be attracting more of a possibility around really connecting into that focus. And because of that, interviews can pop up when you might not even expect them, sitting on the plane with someone, in a class or a professional association gathering. So prep for...
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