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CAREER ADVANCEMENT STRATEGIES AND TACTICS

 Develop career goals (consider personal values and time element).

 Capitalize on your strengths (has bigger impact than patching weaknesses) and build your personal brand.

 Be passionate about and proud of your work (similar to having a calling).

 Develop a code of professional ethics and pro-social (helping others) motivation.

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Career Advancement, continued

 Develop a proactive personality (An active agent can capitalize on opportunities).

 Keep growing through continuous learning and self-development (That’s why you are here today or tonight).

 Document your accomplishments (could be in form of interesting story).

 Project a professional image (You are judged partially by your clothes, style, and grooming).

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Career advancement, continued

 Perceive yourself as a provider of services (You are a business, offering the company a valuable service).

 Develop depth and breadth (Breadth can be within one industry or across industries, or across departments).

 Rely on a network of successful people (Helps in many ways such as problem solving and receiving emotional support).

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Career Advancement, continued

 Work with a mentor (Have a small network of mentors for different problems).

 Find a good person-organization fit (Your personality, values, and style fit the organization culture).

 Take sensible risks.

a. Move outside your comfort zone.

b. Pursue fields and industries many others overlook such as basic industries.

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Career Advancement, concluded

 Emphasize relationships to combat being outsourced.

a. To stay competitive, more and more companies outsource jobs.

b. Positions requiring physical presence are the least likely to be outsourced.

c. Being outsourced also less likely when relationships building is part of your job.

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BUILDING YOUR PERSONAL BRAND

 Personal brand based on your basket of strengths.

 Your personal brand makes you unique, distinguishing you from competition.

 Consistency is important part of brand.

 Brand should accurately reflect you.

 Begin brand development by identifying characteristics different from coworkers.

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FIVE SYMPTOMS OF A PROACTIVE PERSONALITY

1. Plans carefully for things that might go wrong.

2. Fixes things that are broken.

3. Believes the “early bird gets the worm.”

4. Begins projects by himself or herself.

5. Asks for feedback on performance.

6. Takes positive steps to stay healthy and physically fit.

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PROJECTING PROFESSIONAL IMAGE

 To advance, project image of a professional, responsible person through clothing, work area, speech, and general knowledge. Good grammar helps.

 Positive attitude helps project image.

 Challenge is to figure out what constitutes a professional image in your particular environment, such as acceptable dress.

 Dress like successful people in your firm.