Packaging Yourself For Success
by Work Her Way Expert Contributor Lisa Quast
Feel like a cork bobbing in a stream and going wherever the current takes you? Want to take control of your career and steer yourself to destinations of your choice, but don’t know how?
The quickest way to take control of your career is to use the same strategic planning steps that businesses do when positioning themselves competitively. How? Treat your career as a business and yourself as the competitive product.
Many people find themselves working day-to-day in a business environment and using only a fraction of their capabilities. Others are working hard and waiting for someone to recognize their great work. The popular notion that you graduate from college, join a company, go with the flow and hope that somebody, some day, recognizes your skills, abilities, and potential is false. No one is going to pluck you from the masses and help you rise to business stardom, unless you make the first move.
The following steps will prepare you to do just this by establishing the framework for creating your own personal strategic plan. These steps are specifically designed to help you sell yourself (your product) and to achieve your career goals and professional aspirations. Read More...
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