HOW TO REACH YOUR CAREER GOALS

1. Enhance Skills
Enhancement of skills should be a consistent and permanent activity on your side. There are several skills that make up an employee profile, and it goes without saying that each and every of this skills can be enhanced to their optimum all through life.  One of the most important skills to enhance is your presentation skills. The presentation skills can be regarding anything. It can be related to your attire, or your actual presentation skills of an assignment, etc.

2. Knowledge is Power
This is not only a strong phrase but is also a very good idea to enhance your career. The only way to increase your knowledge is by talking to other people, reading or even joining a course that would further your knowledge about anything that is relevant to your profession and job.
Also, another way to enhance your knowledge is by researching everything that is related to your job such as – new job opportunities, competitive companies (could be your next job) and establish your network.  
Therefore, make sure that you delve into anything that is related to your job. Sometimes, it is just a little research that stands between success and defeat in a project.  

3. Interact – networking
The best way to grow in your job and profession is by interacting with others in (or out) of your workplace or individuals who are related to your profession.
Interacting and having a good relationship with your co workers will work wonders if you need to know or enhance your product knowledge or general knowledge about your job.
Interacting with people at any level will be beneficial in your short and long term career goals.
All individuals in the hierarchy hold valuable information that is not generally shared in a board room meeting. Therefore, do not have any apprehensions while talking to anyone, regardless of their post or their place in the hierarchy.

4. Awareness
Once you have begun your work as a professional, you should make it a point to know all about the business that you are in. One of the first ways to begin this is by knowing the company’s competitors as well as collaborators. These aspects can be carried out as easily as having a small conversation after meetings and conferences. Today, with the help of the internet, you can know and interact with several people who are in your profession and start sharing information. Therefore, make sure that you make the optimum use of the resources available to you and you make contact with the most number of people that you can. This kind of networking will further help you whether you wish for a job jump or even if you wish to collaborate with another player in the business.

5. Take Chances
Risks and chances are just opportunities in disguise. To enhance your career and to meet your career goals, you should make sure that you show your dedication and earnestness to the people who really matter. This may also mean taking on work that is really out of your job descriptttion

. However, in a crunch situation, what matters is that the job was done and by whom. This kind of volunteering will always help you to be recognized as a doer of jobs.

Think Strategically for Your Career

Office Politics

If you feel isolated at work, that your ideas aren't being listened to, or that you might get laid off at any minute, then you need Workplace Survival Skills.

Do you have all the talent in the world, but are being shut down at work? How are you going to get a promotion if you aren't able to get anything done? How are you supposed to be an effective leader when you have no power?

You can blame your ineffectiveness on the organization you work for. You can blame your coworkers. Or, you can do something about it.

Learn to Think Strategically

The first thing you need to do in order to survive at work is to recognize that the organization you work for has a complex social structure. And In order to do well within a complex social structure, you have to learn to think strategically about your communication.

Thinking strategically will bring you to the logical conclusion that if you are going to be successful at work, you will need to form alliances. Effective alliances give you emotional support, reduce your vulnerability, and provide you with valuable information. Without effective alliances, you are dead in the water.

What You Will Gain from This Program

After listening to this program on a regular basis for two weeks, you will start to develop the following abilities:

• Goal driven thinking

• Learning from criticism

• Effective alliance building

• Listening attentively

• A greater sense of overall awareness

These abilities will help you move beyond just surviving at work. They are the foundation for your success in the future. These abilities will become second nature, and your true talents will emerge within your organization.

The next and final cornerstone to surviving at work is being able to deal with criticism. Effective communicators are able to learn from criticism. If you find yourself in denial when you are criticized at work, then you definitely need this hypnosis program.

Career Goals

Where do you see yourself in five years?

This is the interviewer trying to see how you are in making long range plans and if you have goals that mesh with the organization's.  One way to answer this question is to look back on your accomplishments to date: "I started out in my profession as a junior clerk while I completed my college studies during the evenings.  Once I had my degree, I applied for a transfer to a more advanced position, citing my on-the-job training.  This has been my pattern for my career with my past 2 employers.  I learn quickly on the job and am willing to take classes and workshops to augment my experience.  I have been able to assume greater responsibilities and add more value to the organization.  I do not think in terms of titles...I think more in terms of "How can I solve this problem?  Since this has been my career style to date, I do not imagine it to change.  In five years, I feel I will have continued to learn, to grow into a position of more responsibility and will have made a significant contribution to the organization."

What are your short and long term goals?

No one can make goals for you.  It comes down to where you are in your professional life and what you want to do.  Most people have 5-6 careers in their working lifetime---some with 2 careers going at the same time (like us).

The best advice is to be certain to relate your answers to the organization that interviews you.  Do not make a point of having goals that cannot be realized there ("I want to work in Paris." Organization is strictly domestic.)  If you do your research into the organization, and into what you truly want to do in the future, you will be able to come up with reasonable responses.  No one is going to come back to you in five years and chastise you for not meeting these goals!  You will not be held to them...it is only an interview and they are interested in how you see yourself (and they want to see you in the job.)