Career DevelopmentToday, personal career development means something very different than it did a decade ago. Growth within the company is facilitated by great opportunities and resources to help professional development. In line with Thomas' entrepreneurial culture, the Career Resource Center has been designed to help employees move along this path.
7 Career management tips:Adapted from The Career Advisor, by William S. Frank
Keep a weekly journal of your accomplishments, your "triples" and your "home runs," so you'll have them when it's time to update your resume. The hardest part of resume writing is remembering ancient history.
2. Listen 80%, talk 20% Sometimes the best thing to say in a business discussion is absolutely nothing.
3. It's often a mistake to let work become 100% of your life. Extreme work enthusiasts - workaholics - overproduce and overachieve, but then burn out, and some never recover. If you're working 80 hours per week, every week, something may be wrong. The Golden Mean, "Moderation in all things," is not a bad idea.
4. Career tests are like blood tests; they give you an accurate, 360-degree profile of you as a career person. Career unhappiness often comes from not knowing yourself well enough to choose the right work environment.
5. Stay focused on your gifts--your genius--not your mediocrities. Do what you're best at. Sure, you can swim upstream in a raging river. But wouldn't you be happier swimming downstream with the current?
6. Peter Drucker, the famous management consultant, said, "Do first things first, and second things not at all." That's pretty good advice.
7. Business results are important, but the people around you are important too, especially today, in increasingly team-oriented environments. Spend 50% of your time getting results, and 50% of your time developing career-sustaining relationships, both inside and outside your organization.
| 
|
| 
