How to Manage Your Career
Begin With the End in Mind
Forming a Vision for your career
How to Put Together a Winning CV?
Preparing For the Interview
Managing the Interview
How To Negotiate For The Best Deal
What To Do After The Interview
Interview Planning And Preparation Pro-Forma
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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it
- Buddha
The key to a sustainable career is to find one that you really love and enjoy. However, it is not at all easy to find a job that gives you immense satisfaction when you are just working on it.
So many people these days change their field of work several times in the search for a better and fulfilling career.
Mostly all of us have faced the ups and downs in our working life. That’s not something to worry about. That’s life. The high and lows are inevitable.
However, how many times have you faced the downs because you are not comfortable with the area of work you have chosen, and the resultant uncertainties?
If that is the case, you do not have to feel doomed.
The options are many, and choosing a career you enjoy is no longer an impossible dream. Sustaining it is where the challenge lies.
The job market is highly competitive, and one false move can leave you out of the game!
Meticulous planning is critical to having a career of your choice and sustaining it.
In this book we will look at different techniques and strategies on how to go about managing your career.
First let’s look at the scope of the e-book. We are aiming to help you achieve the following essentials by the end of this book.
Objectives:
After completing this book, you will be able to:
- Produce your career and life goals
- Know what direction you need to move in
- Know your career priorities
- Produce a winning CV that sells you effectively
- Answer any interview question that is thrown at you
- Overcome any interview nerves
- Communicate your strengths without bragging
- Deal with your weaknesses and learn to work around them
- Understand what interviewers are looking for in a potential candidate
- Prepare and plan beforehand to ensure a successful interview
- Negotiate for a better pay deal
- Negotiate for better terms and conditions
- And last but not the least, you learn how to be content and at peace with your choices
So let’s get on to charting a career plan that can help you get where you want to in life.
How do you find an ideal career that is just right for you?
Many times, people tend to drift into careers that probably their parents decide for them. As long as it is what you can do better and are comfortable with, there are no problems in going for it. If that is not the case, what would be worth choosing?
There are a thousand career options open to you today. There are all the chances that you can get into a line of work that you can excel in and which also gives you sustained gratification.
How to know what career would suit you the best is the question.
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come
- Greer Garson
A number of factors act as motivators, and money usually tries to be the top favourite. It involves some serious thinking at your side to come up with the right choices or the probability of your searching for another option within 2-5 years would be high.
Most people change their careers at least 7 times over the course of their life!
However unbelievable that sounds, it’s a fact!
How successful you’ll be in making transitions among careers can at least be partially attributed to the amount of career planning and preparation you’ve done.
Different people are driven by different things at different points of their career. It’s all about getting your priorities clear and fulfillment will be on its way home!
Now, every job-seeker needs to take the time to step way from the day-to-day grind of work and do some introspection. It will set the base for the development and enhancement of your careers options.
Career planning isn’t just restricted to people who are frustrated and confined to their job, it also applies to those who are happy with their current jobs too.
There is always room for improvement and scope to grow. You just need to explore the realms of your potential and the options at hand.
This book is about career management, and it can serve as a useful tool to anyone who wants to make a success of their working life, and that’s possible only if people find fulfillment in their work.
I will help you determine the vital criteria in your chosen career and help you produce a winning CV that sells you right off the page!
I will also look at varied interview techniques and how to prepare for them. I will also help you hone your negotiation skills to acquire better terms and conditions.
If a career in HR is what you are after, this book will be an essential resource in your quest for getting that role that you want and deserve.
We spend more than half of our lives working, so we might as well get it right by putting in a little effort.
It pays to make the right career choice and it doesn’t matter whether you are preparing for your first job or looking for a career change – it is never too late.
Here’s something to think over.
Say, it’s your endeavor to be in a high profile executive role, but you also aspire of having a balanced personal life, wherein you intend to reach home by 7 every evening.
Now these are very conflicting goals; one is usually compromised to achieve the other effectively. If you try to manage both goals you might end up fulfilling neither and making yourself unhappy in the process.
This is where career management can come in handy. It helps you sketch a career plan that sees to it that your personal and professional goals, aspirations, values and beliefs are in perfect cohesion.
If this balance is not achieved, then you might achieve a lot on your professional front but at the expense of your personal happiness.
Is it worth it?
There are no rights or wrongs here – but you need to start with the end in mind.
Hence, before we go into techniques and strategies to manage your career, we need to spend some time looking at your own overall life plan and where your career fits in your scheme of things. |