Career Management (Collins Business Secrets)

Ask questions and stay interested. Forget about “what’s in it for me”, and instead find a real point of connection with everyone you talk to,

Getting yourself a name for what you do inside your chosen industry is a great career enhancer. It will make you contacts, give you development opportunities in your career and ultimately find you jobs before they are advertised, making sure your name is the first one to be considered.

They have wide networks inside work and also outside work and they know not only how to build a strong network but also how to leverage it

Bear your short and long term career objectives in mind when you work out your elevator pitch

To which aspects do you want to draw employers’ attention?

How do you want to define what value you bring to an employer? Think about your USP – your Unique Selling Point

But supposing you have never had the kind of career success that you want to achieve now. How can you identify and gain the skills you need? Well, you can either start from scratch or you can learn from what has and hasn’t worked for your role models.

The will to change. Committing to goals may mean you have to be the person who is willing to go out and learn a new skill.

made a list of how he had sabotaged himself in the past and what he could do to solve these patterns of behaviour

What are some things you can do today, this week, this month, this year to produce the results? Every journey, however long, starts with a single step.