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Job Basics: Growth

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Specific parts of your career plan are going to involve how you grow as a professional. After you achieve your career goal you’re also going to need to keep growing for promotions, expansion, adaption, or avoiding boredom.

A big part of your career is improvement of who you are.  No, it doesn’t end, sorry.  Growth is another major element of the Job Basics.

Now how you can grow varies – but these are common areas of career growth in all careers, and wether you’re starting out or are nearly there, this is what you want to do – and do right.

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Job Basics: The Path

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Last we met, we discussed how your  first goal should be, well, having a goal to get to. A job or position or career that you knew, understood, and knew enough to reach for. That gave you something to plan for and something to start doing right away.

So once you have a career goal in mind, as noted, you should research it and understand it. This lets you create a path to that goal.  Thats the next thing to explore in Job Basics

This may sound simple, but that simplicity is deceptive. It is easy to treat career paths as obvious, as ordained, or as something “everyone” knows. Real life, however, is filled with roundabouts, distractions, short cuts, and surprises. If it seems easy, there’s a good chance you don’t know what the hell you’re doing – or you’re very lucky.

Let’s not assume luck or competency, but focus on what you need to know and do to have a path to your goal.

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Job Basics: The Goal

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So, where does your career/job life start? Where does it all begin? With a Goal of what you want to do and what you want to be. Note this doesn’t have to be what you want to be when you grow up, since I’m not sure I’ve grown up yet. It just has to be something you’re reaching for now or in the near future.

Having a goal that you truly want, that you “get”, that you feel viscerally directs you. You know why you’re reaching for it. You have the drive to propel you. You develop an almost instinctive understanding of what you’re trying to achieve.

You start with where you want to end up and figure out what to do to get there – the first Job Basic is knowing where your want to go.

Here’s what that consists of.

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