Grow Your Career: Hope Campbell

GROW YOUR CAREER Hope Campbell

Practice Your Skills ■

There is always lots of time to practice your skills for example: –

Breaks during work

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Downtime at home

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During your day-today life

 Study the information you need to know/ Increase your knowledge base - Studying can help not only with you knowing more about what you job/role is in the workplace but also with your physical skills.

 Get a mentor - A mentor can help you practice your skills as well as helping you practice new ones.

“One of my students had a great piece of advice for her classmates. She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs. When the program ends, don’t let the day job reabsorb the learning time. Keep the time to evolve your work.”” https://hbr.org/2013/09/six-ways-to-growyour-job

Set Goals for Yourself  Make them achievable - You only pursue the goals you have, that you can actually achieve.

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Make them Realistic - If you don’t set goals for yourself you won’t know where you want to end up in life. You need to set goals that are realistic though. Ex. If your career was in healthcare as a dental assistant, your realistic career goal for the future could be, becoming a full time dentist.

 Failure - Failure = Growth - You learn new lessons from your failures

Work Towards your Goals  Plan - “A goal without a plan is just a wish”. You need to make a plan to get to where you want to be. You can’t just “wing it”. Without a plan you most likely won’t grow in your career.

 Pick your position - You should know where you want to end up in your career. If you know you should always be working towards it. If not, pick a position you think would be a good fit for you and work towards it. Without a goal in your career, there’s no purpose to grow.

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Ask - Your boss doesn’t know if you want to excel in your career or stay where you are. You have to tell/ask them and show them that the job will be the perfect fit for you.

Be open and prepared for anything 

If you have a desired goal that you want to achieve you have to be open-minded. Ex. If your boss offered you a new job title that is higher than your current job title you should take it even if that’s not the job title you want. You should take it because it’s a huge step closer to what you want if your not already there.

 You also have to be prepared for anything. Ex. One day at your job your boss comes to you first with a problem to challenge your abilities. You have to be prepared to show or to explain to your boss how you would resolve and conquer the problem. Therefore you need to be ready in order to properly explain what you mean and how to show how you are able to do it.

Conclusion These four tips that I have described to you to help grow your career are good separated, but when you use all of them together you will do great things in your career. Here is 2 examples that describe how you can use these tips to help you.

• Healthcare Healthcare is a great job to choose. Your salary in most cases is excellent and your helping people as well.

• Science Science as well is a great job with a great salary in most cases. As well as you being able to discover and learn new things daily.

How can I grow in these careers though? Here is how you’ll do it. 1. You will practice your skills every chance you can get. Believe in yourself and try to give yourself some motivation to do so. 2. Set goals for yourself. Without goals in you won’t grow in your career because you aren’t trying to improve and do what you aspire to do. 3. You will work towards your goals. If you don’t work towards your goals how will you even succeed in anything. Lastly, 4. you will make sure you are open and prepared for anything. What if one day you get moved to a different branch or you get a new manager or something as big as a major problem that your boss choses you to help with. You need to take all of your skills and be prepared, as calm as you can and open to changes.