10 Top Tips For Building a Successful Career

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10 Top Tips For Building a Successful Career

Building your career is exciting because it provides an opportunity to shape your life in the way you want. It canalso be scary when you do not know what it is that you want to do and when you are not sure how you can make aliving.

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The more you are in charge of your process, the better you will feel. So here are my top 10 tips to help move youforward as you create your career.

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1. Know your values

The place to start building career success is with yourself. First, zero in on your values. Values are the coreprinciples that run your life. The more your career aligns with and honors your values, the deeper the sense ofsatisfaction you will derive from what you do.

2. Play to your strengths

Second, nd your strengths. It is easier and a lot more fun to play to your strengths than to compensate forweaknesses. A great resource for identifying your strengths is Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath where you buythe book and then take an on-line assessment which generates a report of your top 5 strengths. Then see howyou can start playing to YOUR strengths!

3. Live your passions

Some people are able to live their passions every day. For others, tapping into passions is more challenging.Passions are often buried by belief systems and judgments that convince you that what you love is not worthy ofor capable of sustaining you in a career. If that is your situation, think back to those childhood passions and seewhat it would take to introduce more of those things into your life right now.

4. Use your favorite skill sets

What are you good at doing? A great resource is the 7 Success Stories exercise in Richard Nelson Bolles’ seminalwork, What Color Is Your Parachute? Think of the times that you have been successful and then zero in on the




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speci c steps that you took to get there. These will tell you your best skills. Now pick your favorite skills and seehow you can apply them in your career.

5. Figure out how much money you need to make

For anyone entering the job market or thinking about a career switch, take a long hard look at your nances. Do abudget. Decide on what kind of lifestyle is really important to you. Then think about how much money you need tomake to support yourself in that lifestyle.

6. Have a plan

Once you have answered all of the foregoing questions, do some research into di erent career scenarios thatcombine your values, strengths, passions and favorite skills sets AND provide you with the money that you needto make. Imagine yourself in those careers. What will you be doing all day? Whom will you be working with? Whatdo you want to accomplish? Then go out and nd out more about these areas. Make a long-range plan for yourcareer search and set quarterly, monthly and weekly SMART goals.

7. Stay exible

There are probably a number of di erent areas that you could see yourself working in. Experiment and see whatyou like best! Volunteer at a local non-pro t. Join a committee. Take a class.

Do you need additional skills? Take a course or go for another degree.




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Do you need another job or two before you are ready for your ideal job? That’s okay since you are moving in theright direction!

8. Network

Here’s the real secret of career building: the best jobs come up because someone who knows you thinks that youwould be the right person for the job. So networking is a critical piece of career success. Yet many people areafraid to network, thinking that it is somehow impolite to ask others for help. Even worse, they way wonder whywould anyone want to spend time with someone new to the eld.

And here’s another insight: networking does not have to be scary. Think of networking as connecting with anotherperson so that the two of you are in sync and are relevant to each other. Yes, you have something to contribute!People are always looking for talent and those big executives/stars were once beginners just like you.

9. Get support

Seek out people who understand your situation or are a positive in uence. Join a support group or create yourown with like-minded friends. Hire a coach. Form your own personal board of directors. This is not the time to bewith naysayers!

10. Be good to yourself

Building a career can be tricky so be good to yourself. Create a nourishment menu of fun, free things to do thatmake you feel great. Keep a success journal documenting all the things that you do well. If negative self-talk is




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6 Steps to Get O on the Right Foot in a New Job 20 Winning Questions to Ask at an Interview

holding you back, come up with a mantra or a rmation that can remind you of yourself at your best. Make thesepractices a habit throughout your life!

By John Benson

This entry was posted in Careers Management on April 23, 2015 by Business Time Zone.

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