Create Your Career Strategy In Ten (10) Steps




Making a decision on what you want to do in the future can often be difficult. Career strategy simply means developing series of actions that you will take each day on your career goals in order to achieve them. You need to decide where you want to take your career, what the options available are, and how you can make an informed decision on the right career path for you. How do you attain your career goals? This is to develop or come out with career strategies in a manner as discussed below.

Developing a career strategy starts with assessing yourself to know your strengths and weaknesses. Before you can start to explore the right areas, you need to focus on yourself. Also, you need to know the things you are really passionate about, your interests, your hobbies, your career preferences, your career aspirations. You need to consider; what your strengths and weaknesses are? What motivates you in the workplace? Assessing yourself is a combination of what you are good at and enjoys doing, your motivations and interests as well.

Since your career or work turns to be a greater part of your life, you should attach great importance to it thereby focusing your attention on your values and needs as you plan and develop strategies. Taking time to explore yourself in these directions cements the whole process of initiating a career strategy.


Once you have a good idea of your strengths and motivators, you need to identify your comparative advantage. This is something that you can do uniquely well, compared with the people around you; a strength, skill set, or quality unique to you that will fill a niche and add value to your organization. It's important to know your comparative advantage because using this trait or skill will help you succeed in your career. According to George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, he said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

If you find it difficult discovering your own comparative advantage, think back to the last few performance reviews you've had. Did your boss praise or commend you for particular skills, traits, or successes on a consistent basis? If so, this might offer some clues as to your comparative advantage.



Situate your skills, interests, abilities and knowledge within the career options you think are available to you. With this, you find out the exact roles your skills and/or abilities can match. The ultimate aim in this step is to match your skills, knowledge and personal qualities to jobs you would like to do. You will become mindful of the knowledge, skills and the personal qualities you may need to achieve your career goals. It is important to understand that your ability to perfectly and genuinely assess all these things are crucial to planning a compelling career strategy.


So now you know the exact skills that fit the exact career option that interest you. The next thing is make up your mind on the exact career. It is important to be certain and have your mind made up because that is the energy you’ll need to go all out and live your dream.


To build expertise, identify the knowledge, skills, certifications, or degrees you'll need to reach the role you'd most like to have. Don't rely on luck, or on people "taking a chance on you". Make sure that you have the training and qualifications needed to take advantage of your opportunities.


Professional networking is an important aspect of creating a career strategy.
After all, people can only help you if they know much about you.This is why you need to get to know the people who can help achieve your goals.
Remember, you can network with colleagues in different departments, attending conferences and other career related gathering to get to know more about those in your career field and relate as well as suppliers and professionals in other organizations. You can also network using tools such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. LinkedIn for example, involves professionals who are branding their companies and networking at the same time.


The only way to make a strong affirmation and go after your dream with all the energy and passion is to set goals. Develop simple, measurable, accurate, realistic and time bound goals for your career and get to work immediately. It is very important to clearly define exactly what you want to achieve and you need to write short statements you can work with towards achieving your goals.


After clearly developing strategies to reach your career goal, it time to do the most important thing that will bring you result. Take action by implementing the strategies.
Do something every day regarding your career goals, that will take you close to the ultimate goal. Here, you can build a professional resume for yourself, which will help you acquire the job position you need

As you go about implementing your career strategies, you realize there is the need to review your strategies, making it more relevant and trigger at your career. Reviewing gives you the opportunity to make changes that will ultimately take you to your desired career.


After the review process, think through your finding and adjust your strategies accordingly. After taking a review and identifying areas that need some form of change, go ahead and do the changes. This is what adjustment is all about. Making the strategy more purposeful and more relevant to your career goals.

Building a successful career takes time and effort. The greatest mistake is to settle where you are without any plans of career development.The only way you can stay on the right path is to take control of your life. Design it, work and live. If you need further direction, training, or coaching regarding how to develop strategies for growth in any area of your life, please check out Munnira Sheikh or send mail to info@munnirasheikh.com

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