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How do you maintain a healthy career in today's fast paced business environment?
Apart from regularly updating your cv, consider the following suggestions which
come from my own experience as well as those of clients over recent years.
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Be prepared to keep learning and growing throughout your entire working life.
This means being willing to keep an open mind to new methods as well as learning
new skills 'on the job' to enhance your employability and cv.
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Ask for sponsorship or other means of practical help to acquire new skills and
knowledge as well as breadth of experience.
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Raise your profile by volunteering for task groups, committees and one off
projects and initiate your own projects.
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Find out what you are passionate about, and let others know what excites you
about what you do. Use it to create opportunities for yourself.
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Read widely and voraciously and keep informed on employment trends and patterns
which prevail in your sector or field.
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Don't be afraid to try something innovative to crack old problems. This may well
result in changing others' perceptions of you and your capabilities as well as
you appreciating yourself more fully.
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Develop emotional resilience. Look on set backs as
opportunities to learn something about the situation or
yourself which will be useful to you later on.
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Network, keep in touch, and follow up a good conversation afterwards with the
individual concerned. You never know where it will lead!
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Be professionally visible. Write articles in journals, get press coverage for
an event you are involved with, use notice boards, get onto working parties to
get your face and name around and outside your organisation. Seek to collaborate not compete.
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Work at building your reserves i.e. of energy, cash, & support. Managing
'peaks' of high workload will be much easier as a result.
Finally, make self-care a priority. This means getting a good diet, plenty of
rest and regularly immersing yourself in what refreshes you. Habits only
take 21 days to get established so start today!
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