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Goal Setting: Developing Realistic and Achievable Goals for Professional Growth

Where do you see yourself in a year? In five years? What skills would you learn to build your career? Setting career goals is about deciding where you want your career to head and planning the steps required to reach that point. Do you have a clear idea about who you want to be in the future? Or what do you want to achieve? Setting and keeping career goals is important to take your work to the next level. You need to have an end destination in mind in order to get there. What’s more, knowing your career goals isn’t just important for you but for your potential employers too. Need for Career Goals 1. Goals provide vision Do you want to see yourself doing the same job or in the same situation next year or three years from now? We aren’t simply talking about a job change or promotion here. We are also pointing to skills and capabilities. You can get better at your skills without moving up the professional ladder. However, it takes more than a few years to both hone your skil...

5 Ways To Authentically Stand Out From The Flock

You have collected an endless database of contacts. You send them follow-up emails and have interacted with them on social media, but now what? What else can you do to nurture your relationships with them and set the stage for opportunities? In this digital era, it's easy to put up a status wishing someone a happy birthday or email your condolences to a client whose parent passed away. But that's what everyone does. Doing something offline adds a personal touch and often means more than your condolence email or birthday status. Though these practices were standard before the digital era, they are still relevant today. Extending a gesture offline put across the perception to the recipients that you care because you took more time to extend the said gesture. But in reality, it isn’t very time-consuming and only takes a little thought and planning. 5 Authentic Ways to Forge Stronger Relationships 1. Send Out Handwritten Cards It might not sound like a big de...

How to Create A Brand Style Guide

Consistency is key when it comes to branding. But, how do you ensure consistency when your company has several departments, agencies, and partners working on producing branded collateral? How can you communicate your brand's requirements fast and efficient as your business grows? USING A BRAND STYLE GUIDE! A brand style guide transforms your mission, vision, and values into the design and tells everyone how to communicate your brand. If you are confused about the brand style guide here are five steps to help you out. What is a Brand Style Guide As the name suggests the brand style guide demonstrates how an organization presents itself to the target audience through its logo, font, color selection, photography, etc. In other words, it acts as a reference point that helps you to ensure your brand looks, feels, and sounds consistent. A brand style guide is so efficient that some people refer to it as a brand bible. Leveraging a brand book make sure that your brand message is conveye...

Pursue Your Dreams Without Fear: 7 Steps To Be Confident

Do you often dream about quitting your boring day job and doing something that is actually meaningful? Do you want to turn that idea you have in mind to something bigger? You obviously do! But, the fear and the risk involved might be so high that you might take a step back from chasing your dreams. Maybe you want to jump off the career cliff and become self-employed, move to another country, or start a non-profit, but your fear is holding you back from getting started. You fear what would happen if you risk too much and fail. You aren’t confident about your ideas and you let doubt take the driver’s seat. But what if you could build up your confidence to actually do what you love? The results would be mind-blowing! Whether you have issues with self-esteem or becoming surer of yourself, here are 7 steps to be confident and pursue your dreams. 1. Always Stay Positive The first step to becoming self-confident is to stay as away as possible from negativity. This means...

The Science and Art of Networking

We have always stressed that networking is important to generate interviews. However, effective networking goes far beyond telling people that you’re out of work. There’s a fine art and meticulous science to networking. Networking is never always about shaking hands and exchanging business cards. Instead, it is about finding a new job or an opportunity . A solid professional networking circle will prove to be beneficial in quite a lot of ways regardless of whether you want to launch a business or showcase a project. Nevertheless, if you really are planning to grow your network, you need to focus on building valuable relationships while you meet professionals everywhere. The Science of Networks Let’s talk about the science of networks. A network primarily consists of web relationships formed by individuals and organizations. From completing routine transactions to learning, socializing, planning, innovating, and developing their career, this web supports the primary function that...

The Importance of Networking

Struggling To Succeed? Professional Networking Could Be the Missing Piece If you are among the millions who consider networking to be a simple act of trading information and marketing yourself, we are sad to inform you that you have got professional networking completely wrong. Professional networking isn’t just about swapping business cards. In fact, it is an activity where you meet professionals and create long-term relationships to reap mutual benefits. But again, sometimes people dread professional networking. You might find it awkward, and time-consuming, especially when your calendar is brimming with work appointments and family commitments. However, even with all these reasons that can stop you from building your business network, there is no denying the positive impact that a strong network can have on your overall success. If you network the right way, you will not only land a job faster, but you will also find new opportunities opening up like never before. Bec...

Advice For People Who Are Very Unclear About Career Goals

Are you unclear about your career goals? We know it's a tough place to be in, especially if you are getting out of college. You have been sticking through for three to four years, and you are starting to realize that your major doesn't interest you and that a career in the industry isn't what you want to spend the next 20-30 years doing. Or, you have got a big major – criminal justice, business, English – but the field is so vast that narrowing it down is hard. Or, you want to make a significant career change and switch your current career path with something new, but you aren't sure what it is. There are endless opportunities and career paths you can try. But you are not sure where to begin. The only thing you know is you don't want to continue doing what you are doing. Finding a career path is one of the most crucial tasks you will ever accomplish in your life. But when you aren’t sure where you are going with your life, it’s easy to get demotivated. If y...