How to Take Charge of Your Career in the New Economy
July 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Change Jobs
Creating opportunities requires developing a distinctive brand and cultivating relationships.
Know Your Brand
Before you can successfully compete in today’s challenging market, you have to have an angle. That angle is your brand. Whether you realize it or not, you are in fact a brand. The challenge is making sure that brand truly speaks to who you are. Your brand should project your strengths so that the outside world can see them clearly. A brand is a promise, and how your brand comes across represents the value you promise to deliver.
Cultivate Critical Relationships
According to best- selling author and relationship consultant, Keith Ferrazzi’s web site, “The real path to success in your career and in your personal life is through creating an inner circle of lifeline relationships, relationships that matter.” Getting a foot in the door in this economy is a tremendous challenge. The single best way to get a job in any market is through a personal connection. Connections come through the careful cultivation of relationships…
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