Smart Lemming Action Items: Career Moves, Building Skills, and Job Survival
10 Action Items to Proactively Manage Your Career Now
1. Don’t Know Your Next Career Move? Write a Five-Year Strategic Plan: write your mission, vision, and values in your strategic plan to help you discover your next career goals, making the thought of work more meaningful rather than pointless.
2. Master’s Degree: Is It Worth It?: with the recession hitting college graduates hard, consider staying in school to get your master’s degree. Recently laid off? Consider continuing education to ride out the recession.
3. 4 Reasons Why those Non-Dream Jobs are Important to You: after you write your strategic plan, determine if more education is an option for you, make peace with your job that you may not be excited about. For the unemployed, any non-dream job will do to make ends meet.
4. Do I Need a Portfolio of My Work?: even if you’re employed, start identifying materials for your portfolio. You never know when you’ll be forced into a job search, due to the continued threat of layoffs by employers.
5. Smart Lemming Diary - Portfolio Production, Preparing for My Meeting with CEO: Now that you have your materials for a portfolio, how do you organize them? Where do you produce them? This post explains part of the process to portfolio production.
6. A Smart Lemming Cautionary Tale - The Diminishing Returns of Overdelivering: reflect on the lesson learned on how over delivering may demonstrate you’re no longer a fit for your job and how you avoid diminishing returns.
7. A Smart Lemming Success Tale - Business Books Add Value: Now is the time to start reading business books or any books that will introduce you to new ideas and skills that will help you will your job, job search, or discover your passion in work.
8. How to Protect Your Job in a Recession: don’t be like Liz Lemon of 30 Rock; learn how to survive in your job during these economic times.
9. Acting Fearful in the Workplace is Dangerous and Career Limiting: scared? So are all of us during this recession. Learn how to control your fear, not letting fear limit your career options.
10. 8 Ways to Become an Effective Executive: whether your employed or unemployed, a manager or a worker, learn how you can contribute to your company, ensuring improved success in your job performance.
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