Thursday, March 8, 2012

How To Prepare For The Next Level As A Professional

By Bernard Bowers


Someone who has mastered and outgrown his or her job is a fully competent professional. Do you think you are a fully competent professional? Perhaps you believe you have outgrown your job role. You may even be looking to move up to the next level of your profession. If you answered yes to these questions, you are due for a promotion and/or it is time to progress to the next level or two in your profession.

Being in a dead end job is what you are likely to be feeling right now. Since all jobs act as stepping-stones in order to get to the next level, the truth is there are no such things as dead end jobs. It is usually your own self-doubt and your own thinking that would instead haunt you and cause you to feel that you are stuck with this job for life and there is no way out.

But yes, it is true that you can get stuck in a job if you have nothing new to offer an employer. Do you think this applies to you? By evaluating what new skills, attributes, and experiences you have acquired since taking on your current or last job role, then you can easily find out.

You will need to learn how to stay a step ahead of your competition if you are serious about moving up the ranks. Ensure that you do not leave your industry self-development to your employer; rather, make sure that you are active in continuously working on improving yourself when it comes to the latest trends, terminologies, training and specialization schemes required in your industry. Those who do this set the standard by which all the other job applicant candidates are evaluated and judged as not for the a specific job role or competent and they are also the ones who effortlessly get the jobs.

Keep in mind that it's an employer's market. You therefore need to develop industry-specific and job market-specific highly tuned skills to ensure you gain the edge over your competitors. To evaluate how advance your job market skills are, take this free job market performance assessment.




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