How to secure a permanent career
Tips / / December 19, 2019
You grind away at work, but the salary has not changed for three years, and it seems that everyone around you successful. How to change the situation - tell with business school City Business School.
What is meant by career growth? This increase in office?
Yes, but not only that. Career growth - is a leap in knowledge and experience, the transition to a higher level of responsibility. Promotion or salary increase - are important components of career development, an indicator that you are becoming a more valuable employee.
Ideal - when your competence, the position and the salary grow simultaneously. The main thing - to realize that their careers need to be addressed, not meekly wait until you notice. Of course, you can not force you to raise the head of the here and now. But you can definitely influence this decision and to speed it up.
I now want to improve, but it is not everything. What am I doing wrong?
One intention is not enough. You need to know exactly what you do not have enough for the next step - the best from several sources.
Talk to the manager. Head can not imagine that you are not satisfied with the current position. Share your opinion on this subject and ask what you need to do to take a position higher. For example, you've been working in marketing and would like to lead your marketing department. Perhaps, for this you will need to master the skills of business negotiations, or to learn how to develop a strategy.
Ask for advice from successful colleagues. People standing above you on the ladder, can share experiences. Communicate and find out what led to their professional growth. Ask advise you books, programs and other materials that help them in their work. Asking how they cope with difficult and interesting case studies.
Conduct an audit of his skills. Objectively evaluate himself as a candidate for the increase - compare their competencies with those required in the new position. Think about what you already do well, and something to have to work. Be objective to yourself is difficult, but there are techniques that will help to do it.
What techniques will help to objectively evaluate yourself as a professional?
For example, the subtraction technique, which is described in the book "The space purposes" Coach Philippe Bogacheva productivity. It helps to arrange check yourself in style HR-agency and see how you meet the desired position. Here's what to do.
- Find the job of your dreams on HeadHunter. And best of several.
- Write down in a column for candidates for these vacancies.
- In the adjacent column, write your real skills - the most honest, you do it for yourself.
- Compare columns and delete from the first skills that you have. The rest - this is what you want to learn to enter a new career level.
Now that you know exactly what you are missing, and you can start working on the missing competencies.
Or maybe the problem is not in me, but in the company?
Yes, it also happens. Perhaps the company is now no need for the position that you want to take, or do not have enough budget to increase salaries. If you are a long time and works well, but every conversation with the boss to increase postponed indefinitely, it is unlikely that anything will change.
Give the past arguments: tell us about your contribution to the development of the company over the past six months, the authorities pay attention to the average market salary experts your position.
If efforts go unnoticed, and income - lower than the level of your specialists in other companies, the release may be changing jobs.
I know that career opportunities in my company there. That's just my height do not see what to do?
Demonstrate it more clearly. Do more than your colleagues do.
Read professional literature, go on courses and training, participate in the life of your industry, attend conferences, webinars, lectures. All that will learn, apply in practice: offer ideas to improve work processes in the company and be prepared to take responsibility for their implementation. Such efforts will not go unnoticed.
I do not have time and energy to go on courses and lectures. You can get a raise without it?
Optionally, torn between a dozen trainings and courses. There are complex programs where you get the squeeze the most valuable information to advance in your field. For example, MBA (Master of Business Administration) - Master of Business Administration.
On the MBA course covers management, marketing, finance, project management and staff decide business cases real companies, develop the ability to think strategically, efficiently use existing resources and to evaluate the risks. This program provides the skills to work in a managerial position, and therefore - the possibility of vertical career.
New knowledge will improve not only your job, but your salary 45% of Russian employers consider As business education affects wagesThat employees with an MBA should receive 10 to 75% more.
It seems, MBA - this is useful. But whether it will assess my superiors?
Studies say that, yes. according to information The survey of recruitment agency Hays from recruiting agency Hays, 100% of employers believe an MBA useful for a career.
At school City Business School there is an intensive program in which MBA can be obtained for the year-to-date by themselves for specialization. For example, strategy, finance, logistics, retail, IT management, law, security, and others. CBS students say that an MBA brings the benefit of a career in the first year after graduation.
Prior to joining the CBS I was hired manager: managed IT projects in the health sector. Received at the business school knowledge has become for me a push for major changes in life. With their help, I'm from the project manager has become a CEO of his own company.
Dmitry Trofimov, CEO of IT company "Inter"
Your work will notice not only the chief. The MBA program at the end of the City Business School you will receive two diplomas: a supplementary education program "Master of Business Administration" and the European EDLEA Association. This means that the diploma will be quoted abroad and new career opportunities are open for you.