What Steps Are You Taking To Grow Your Career?

Most people tend to relax after they have landed their first jobs or that ideal job, especially when their job search process was full of frustrations and disappointments. The joy of finally getting a job takes over, and at most times, will render a person too comfortable they stall at making any next steps to further their career. Are you a victim of this?

Career experts and successful people advise that you should never stop looking for new opportunities, even when you think you have reached your destination. For those who are currently employed, you should always be on the lookout for better job opportunities; either a top position in your company or changing jobs altogether. Those still searching, you should look for new ways to approach your job hunt process if you are to increase your chances of getting a job.

So, what steps are you taking to ensure growth in your career? Are you comfortable in your current situation that you have lost sight of where you want to be in the next few years? There are various steps you can take to ensure career growth and realize success in your life.

Steps You Can Take To Help Grow Your Career

1. Get familiar with the current job trends
If employers and recruiting managers had a hard time hiring in various positions in the previous year, most probably they decided to change up on the process this year. This then means that how you applied for jobs and landed interviews last year may not be the same process that will work today.

You will need to up your game and that means taking time to analyze what job hunt technique is working best at this time of year. If you are not sure which trends are best, this article may be of assistance.

2. Follow through with your career goals – both short term and long term
Once you have found a job you love, it becomes easier to celebrate the moment and slip into comfort. This then leads you to take a break from continuing with the necessary steps required to realize your goals, instead of taking time to revise them and update them accordingly. If you want to see growth in your career, the number one thing you need to remember is to never give up on your goals or put them on hold too long.

Whether it is a goal you need to accomplish in the day or in the next 3 years, a laid out plan of goals is the best way to staying on the right path and succeeding.

3. Establish your own marketing plan
If you cannot blow your own trumpet, no one else is going to. And if there is, they probably will not blow it as hard as you would. Gone are the times when you had to sit pretty and wait for your boss to see your efforts and hard work, if you need to grow you must be ready to speak of your talent and skills out loud.

And to do this, come up with a marketing plan for your career by focusing on what you are good at and put it out there for potential employers to see. What projects have you been part of? What are some of your achievements? What are you looking for? Make this information available to those who matter, either through social media or vocalizing it at networking events.

4. Invest in growing your network
If you have been keeping up with current trends in the Kenyan job market, then you know networking is the fastest way to get a job. When you know the right people and they know what you can do in your profession, then this makes the process of getting a job easier and less painful.

With LinkedIn, you can establish connections and build networks in the industries you aspire to work in. You can also attend networking events and arrange to meet new acquaintances for coffee. This will help you figure the right people to build relationships with.

What are you doing today that will help grow your career? Share below.