13 Career Strategies for Success

What is Career Development?

Understanding the building blocks of professional growth

Career development is how you manage work decisions, personal goals, education and professional transitions to achieve life balance and success. It’s not just your job that goes into your career development. Many factors can and should come into play:

• Job Benefits
• Professional Associations
• Certifications
• Mastermind Groups
• Side-Hustles
• Degrees
• Skills
• Retirement Accounts

Job vs Career

What’s the difference and why does it matter?

The difference between a job and a career is that a job is something you do simply to earn money. A career is working to formulate a plan so you have a series of connected employment opportunities that build upon each other.

How can you turn your job into a career? How can you make your career a career you love? Here’s my career training guide below.

Do You Want to Develop Your Career?

Career training starts with honest self-assessment

Career training is a lot of work. You have to think big and long-term. Ask yourself these questions before you get started:

• Do you wake up in the morning excited to tackle the day?
• Do you dread Mondays?
• Do you feel fulfilled in your current role?
• Is there a profession you’ve always wanted to try?
• Is there a skill you have been wanting to add to your resume?

Hack Your Resume

Stand out from the competition

To be a great manager you have to hone your own influence. Your moods, ideas and feelings are contagious and can affect your team—in both good and bad ways.

Know How to Sell Yourself

Essential persuasion skills for any career

Even if you are not in sales, you should know how to sell. We are constantly selling—our ideas, our products, our team. One of the best career training skills you can have is learning the science of sales.

Interview Tips

Master both sides of the interview table

You never know where your career path will take you. Keep these interview tips in your back pocket—whether you are the interviewee or the interviewer.

Build Your Network

Create job insurance and flexibility

As you grow your career you will meet more and more interesting people. Your network is a major career asset because it can give you job insurance in case of hard times and job flexibility if you want to jump ship.

Alternatives to College

Level up without going back to school

One of the best ways to develop your career is to get more education. But does it have to be college? No! There are ways you can be a superstar at work without having to go back to school:

• Learn to speak another language
• Get certified in a skill, such as body language, consulting, or programming
• Start a professional development group or Toastmasters at your company

Be a Meeting Master

Spend your meeting time wisely

If you’re a middle manager, you spend about 35% of your time in meetings. Upper management? About 50%! That’s half of your time. Are you spending it well?

Master Your People Skills

The one universal career skill

There is only one universal career skill—no matter what your career, niche, industry or title you will need it: Interpersonal Intelligence. The higher your interpersonal intelligence, the more smooth your career will go.

Negotiate for Your Raise

Get paid what you’re worth

At some point you will have earned a raise or promotion. Deserving a raise is only half the battle—how do you ask for one? The first big hurdle is getting over your own fear, especially if you have any Impostor Syndrome.

Public Speaking Tips

Command any room

More and more jobs require some kind of public speaking—from a stage, making a toast, leading a video call, or speaking up at a meeting. Would you be able to make an impromptu speech if you had to?

Shortcuts to Success

Get creative with your career

I do believe there are some shortcuts to success. I have used them myself and they work. Want to get a little creative with your career?

Decode Your Boss

Master the art of managing up

Unless you’re the boss, you always will have to be on the lookout for your boss’s bad moods—they are contagious! It’s extremely important you know the ins and outs of your boss’s personality so you can do what I call managing up.

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