Excellent Article on Career Development and Management….

March 17th, 2007 by the medical sales recruiter

Projecting the Executive Image by Dilip G. Saraf is a must read!

I am sure that many of you have already seen these tips somewhere but I think they are critical to your career success. Why am I so interested? Because if you do what Mr. Saraf suggests, your resume will be stronger, your experience will be stronger and your references will be outstanding. In fact these three tips are so important that I am going to insert them below…

13.) Do not let the levels at which your superiors operate intimidate you and let your cower in fear because of their status. If you are seen as one who easily rubs shoulders with higher-ups your chances of being seen as one of them are greatly amplified.

14.) Look at the industry trends and see if you are keeping up with those trends in your current job or if you need to move to another area of responsibility within your own company. Do not let your false sense of loyalty to your employer or boss get in the way of your own welfare.

15.) If you identify an outside opportunity and find that you lack certain qualifications to jump, use your existing job to seek the assignments that get you the needed expertise and then prepare yourself for the move. Such opportunities are always out there. Write your resume in advance and seek out those assignments. In fact, your advance resume is to chart out your career track and then seek assignments to make it happen. This now puts you in the driver’s seat.

Please read this article. If you know someone that does these things well, tell them about me!!

2 Responses to “Excellent Article on Career Development and Management….”

on 19 Mar 2007 at 5:54 pm1 Jeanne

This is excellent advice. It is correct that we know this, yet today I join the unemployed .. (ironlically for practicing number one) yet I did not have number three on the back burner.. and I was not in the driving seat..

the loss of job not being a bad thing.. it would have been much better from the drivers seat than the sitting in the back seat.
on 29 Mar 2007 at 3:48 pm2 the medical sales recruiter

Jeanne,
I am sorry to hear about the job. I hope some of my tips are useful.

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