How to Climb in Career

Ways to climb up there!

Do you want to move up in your career? Are you getting bored with
the present set of responsibilities? Are you longing for a change?
Are you ambitious and dreaming of climbing the ladder of your
career? Do you regret and blame others for your failure to reach
your dream career? Here are some ways to reach your dream job.

1. Skill yourself

Every new job requires new set of skills. To meet successfully the
changing times we need to equip ourselves with technical, conceptual
and human relational skills. We need to learn these skills by
attending training programs, coaching classes, reading books, making
an extra effort etc. The world is changing very fast and we need to
re-skill our abilities and talents if we want to face the potential
challenges in our career.

We need to become humble and develop in us an open attitude to learn
always. We must admit to ourselves and to others that there are
things that we need to learn still. In our career journey it is good
to have a mentor who can guide us and help us. We must constantly
look out for opportunities to learn and gain new knowledge and new
skills.

It is said that 85%of our success in our career is due to our
technical, human, managerial and intuitive skills. Money is never a
security for any one. The only security is our skills. Our skills
too will become redundant if we don't continuously improve them.
When we become proficient in a technical skill with sufficient
knowledge and excellent human relations skills, we are on the way to
become a leader.

Skills will give us confidence in ourselves. Skill and confidence
form an unconquerable army. We must always look for new skills, new
knowledge and new ideas to win the wars in our career .

2. Assume responsibility

We need to take responsibility for our career. No one else is
responsible for it. Shifting this responsibility to our parents,
spouses, situations, and management will make us look irresponsible
and childish. It is our duty to take initiatives and constantly look
out for opportunities to develop our career. Others can inspire us,
motivate us and help us, but we need to make the decision to move up
in our career.

It is not wise to blame others for the failures in our careers and
grab the credit for our successes. When we responsibly and
passionately nurture our careers praises from others will flow to
us. Promotions and successes come to people who are responsible and
accountable.

Indian spirituality considers one's career as a vocation, a mission,
a swadharma that one has to follow with total commitment and full
passion if one wishes to achieve self-realization and success. We
must hold on to this vocation with our whole hearts and minds and
train ourselves to reach this perfect stage self-fulfillment.

3. Walk an extra mile

If you want to climb up your career make some extra effort. Make
your own ways and use your creative energy in facing your career
challenges. Don't be limited by the job descriptions; instead go
beyond your roles and jobs and take up some initiatives even when
people don't expect you to do those things. Volunteering to do
something challenging and difficult will fill you with joy and
fulfillment. Volunteering to do tough things will make you tough
too.

Take up initiatives and become generous to walk an extra mile, to
walk the road-less-traveled and put in a little extra effort to
climb up in your career. Show your genuine concern by offering ideas
and suggestions and be willing to work beyond the 9-to-5 routine.
Your willingness to do something that no one else is ready to do
will be noticed by your boss and that will help you climb higher.
When you give an extra hour to your work you transform your job into
a career.

4. Love your company

If you wish to climb your career ladder the best way is to love your
company. It is not a love imprisoned within your hearts. The people
in the company should feel and know that you love the company and
its people. Respect for the boss and management, loyalty to the
organisation, esteem for colleagues and having a helpful attitude
will help you on your journey towards your goal.

Become loyal to the goals and visions of the company and share your
ideas and resources to achieve these goals. If we reduce the
expenses of the company, take care of its properties and contribute
our best to make it the best company we will surely be pushed up in
our career. When our company becomes the best we too become the
best. Also those who share credit and refrain from gossips are
admired by the management and are picked up for promotions.

5. Love your career

Love your career and your job just as you love yourself. To love
your career you must choose a career that is based on your strengths
and talents. We must fall in love with our career and then we will
constantly prepare ourselves to make ourselves more effective. But
at the same time we must be humble enough to admit that we don't
have solutions for every problem.

Don't be worried so much about salary, incentives and prestige but
become more concerned about your career. Choose a career you love
and give your best to become the best in that career. There are many
people who regret in life for choosing a career they never loved.

Many of us do not know what to do with ourselves and our talents
because we are in the wrong career. When our talents are wasted we
are wasted. Amithabh Bachan says in one of his interviews that he is
so successful because he chose early in life a career he loved and
took responsibility for it.

If we choose the career we love then we will never have to work at
all. If we choose a career we love we will find ways to climb up
there.

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