4 Questions of a Successful Career
Here are four questions to ask yourself in planning your career and in adjusting your career plan over time.
What do you want to do?
Write down what you want to do on the job. Write down where you want to live. Write down whether you want to work from home or go to a place outside of your home to work. Write down whether you want to work for yourself or for someone else.
You should use this process or a similar process every time you evaluate the progress of your career.
These are your career goals. If you don’t know your goals, how can you possibly achieve your them?
What are you capable of doing?
Write down your experience in managing projects, managing people, creating innovation and change, processing data, writing software or publications, and using applications and tools. Make a list under each category. These are your abilities.
What jobs match your goals and your abilities?
You can research this information from job descriptions that you find on Internet job listing sites. There are also career aptitude tests. ” Take the Career Aptitude Test | Rasmussen College” and “Career Aptitude Test | What Career is Right for Me” are two popular tests.
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Who is hiring for the jobs that match what your goals and your abilities?
Now you are getting to an actual job search. If you have narrowed down the industries you want to pursue, you can start to approach companies in these industries directly. Many companies list their jobs on their company website. If you know someone working at a company where you want to work, contact that person directly. Identify recruiters in the industry you want to pursue and contact those recruiters. Check newspapers for job listings in your preferred field. Check trade journals specific to your industry for jobs.
The best way to find jobs and jobs descriptions is in a search engine and not a job board or job search engine.
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