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Tips To Take Your Career To The Next Level

Do you feel like climbing the corporate ladder? Or any other career ladder? If so, Cheers and Wish you all a success ahead!

No matter, whatever career ladder it may be, it involves great challenges and you have to be ready to face some unforeseen circumstances. For these challenges, you need to have little planning, preparation and forethought go a long way. Here are few tips to take your career to the next level.

Communicate with your manager

Tips To Review Your Interview

“Thank god! The interview is all done.”
But still, are you sweating after the interview too? Feel like knowing the rating from your interviewer immediately on your way out the door? But not everyone can enjoy this kind of luxury in their interviews.

However, it’s time to review your own performance after the interview is done. You can probably learn several things from your interview experience.

Once you are done with the interview relax, take a back seat.

Just think about how well did you perform in your interview? Did you give ‘dilly-dallying’ answers or well-practised and prepared answers? What are the pros and cons of your interview?

Make a note about just what happened in your interview. Pen all your thoughts about your interview. Think, what can you learn from this interview experience and how different can you present yourself next time?

Note these points to review your performance in an interview:

How do you rate yourself from one to ten (ten being high)?
How satisfied are you with your interview performance?
Did you arrive on time or not?
How did you introduce yourself? Is it with a good greeting/handshake/posture?
Were you confident and professional in the interview (at all times)?
How did you speak – calm, clear, over aggressive?
How well did you manage with your nonverbal communication (body language)?
Did you handle any difficult questions in the interview? If Yes, what are they and how did you handle them?
Did you make effective communication with your interviewer?
Did you answer all the questions or gave a skip to any of them?
Did you talk about your strengths?
How did you express your weakness in a positive manner?
While you answer these questions – be humble to yourself. Write down the genuine answers. If you had happened to rate yourself between 5 to 10 range that means you are doing very well.

Tips:

Try to practice with some to obtain more effective feedback.
Ask the other person to rate your performance (post-interview).
Think about the problems you faced while answering the questions?
Remember, what all goes on in an interview and behind the scenes of the interview, just happen out of your control. And also, remember that interviewing is learned and a practised skill. So, if you didn’t perform well, practice more and more on your problems and challenges.
Try to answer difficult questions. Think critical problems and resolve them with ease. This enables you to handle your interview easily.

Result:

You’ll become more confident. Moreover, you’ll learn from your mistakes. Your ratings will get added up. You will also be able to choose right job for you.

Always communication will give you the best results. It has the capacity to either break or makes a relationship. Communication with your manager or superior could do wonders for your career. Communicating the right information with your manager will help you to climb your career ladder very easily. Specifically, tell your career goals and future plans to your managers, as managers can help you achieve your objectives. They can help you develop the skills which you need to get there. So, make sure to approach your managers with these type of conversations.

Ask for more responsibility at work

This kind of tip may sound irking but you know, your efforts will broaden your scope of work. The more you take responsibilities at work, the more you get out of it. You can ask your superior for more work and start initiating a new project and organize a team outing, as well. Going beyond the duty will help you to the top when there are any availabilities of promotions.

If you really want to be ahead in your career, don’t be the person arriving at 9 a.m and leaving on dot at 5 p.m. Be advance and put more efforts.

Negotiate your salary

You might have wasted an opportunity to negotiate your cheque slip. But, next time when you get such opportunity uses it. Regain those old loses after completing your probation or during a performance review. Be aware! You need to justify with a ‘win list’ and negotiate your salary.

Know when it’s time to move on

You need to be smart enough and know when it’s time for a change. Always ensure that you are doing a challenging role and acquiring required skills on time. When you remain in the same role for too long, you need to settle down in the predictable routine.

Take a big step by recognizing the time to move on and go somewhere else. Staying with a company for too long is the biggest mistake most of the people do. So, identify and try to leave a role or a company to achieve your career goals.

However, working for a new company can turn beneficial to your career. This will develop your skills, knowledge as well expand your qualifications. Moving on gives you an opportunity to track and keep updated yourself with new technologies and platforms related to your industry.