How to succeed in your career


Career Advice: Proven Job Tips For Career Success

Achieving career success is not an exactassertiveness - go against the culture
process. Nevertheless, there are commonof organizations.
sense rules that winners follow to4. Job Tip: The organization will never
achieve their career goals.be a perfect universe.
Here are six of those real-world careerOrganizations are no better or worse
guidelines that are critical tothan the people who inhabit them. The
developing and executing a successfulorganization will do things of which you
career path.do not approve; it will make mistakes.
1. Job Tip: Do not hire anyone you can'tSo, don't enter the organization with a
fire, unless you are under the harshestmissionary zeal to purify the structure,
kind of pressure you can resist.its purposes and those who make it up.
When you hire a new employee, hopes areFocus your attention on making your best
high that the relationship will work outefforts to move yourself toward your
to everyone's benefit, even if it's agoals and those of the organization.
shotgun wedding. However, the wiseIf, after time, you find that you cannot
manager will take care to avoid aachieve these objectives, you have two
position where he can't dismiss thatchoices. Compromise your standards or
person if things don't work out.leave. That is the way it is.
This means resisting situations where5. Job Tip: Don't expect your comrades
employment is based on any reason otherto support you to the bitter end if you
than the needs of the company and theare in serious conflict with the
particular worth and "fit" of the personorganization.
being recruited.If you and your associates are in a
When possible run for cover when you areknock-down-drag-out squabble with the
being pressured by a friend to hire hisorganization, be very cautious if your
friend. Especially try to duck theassociates say, "We'll hold your coat,
bullet when the "do hire" message comesCharlie; you go fight 'em." Or the
on a personal basis from the boss.corollary to that, "If you get fired,
In the real world there may be noCharlie, we will leave with you."
escaping. If that is the case, protectThat all sounds fine in the heat of the
yourself from the start. Have a clearmoment. But if it comes to actual
understanding with all concerned of theconflict, most people shy away and begin
basis on which you are acting. Insistthinking more about job security and
that everyone understands that so longhouse payments than they do loyalty to
as you are held responsible for thethe cause you once shared.
results of your department you have the6. Job Tip: Most people are waiting for
absolute right to hire and fire. Yousomething to happen. For one reason or
should insist on being let off the hookanother, the majority of people spend
if that right is denied.most of their careers waiting for the
Be sure to document the performance ofspark to light. They want someone to
the offspring of the shotgun wedding.come along and tell them what to do.
You need facts, whether he or she is aThey want to wake up some morning
raging success or a total disaster.motivated to achieve success.
2. Job Tip: The only reality in anyOn the other hand, a few people are
organization is individual perceptionsimpatient. They are chomping at the bit
of the information that is available.to shape their world. They win big or
Therefore, "reality" is what those inlose big in the process, but they get to
power say it is. Learn to live with it.choose the game and set the stakes.
3. Job Tip: The very attributes thatMeanwhile, those who wait for career
make for a successful career -success are dancing to someone else's
independence of thought, ambition,music.



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