The Power of Your Personal Brand

Things To Consider Before Your Next Career Move

Most career pros will train you on how to revise your resume, steps to preparing for an interview, and other basic skills you need to compete in the workplace.  But not too many of them will teach you what it really takes to create a sustained brand in your career that will take you all the way, and allow you to still keep your personal values intact.  Would you like to know the ‘success data’ used by working women and men to secure their next career opportunity?  Read on to discover tips and tools to do just that.

Have A Career Plan

Too often career moves are treated as escape plans. A job you once loved (or maybe never loved) becomes unbearable, so you desperately look for a way out.  If your current situation is bad enough, just about any other job seems like a great career move.

Chase Learning

Those who learns the most succeeds the most. When analyzing job opportunities, the most important thing to consider is how much you will be able to learn from a potential position.

Don’t Base Decisions On Money

Thе fіnаnсіаl еlеmеntѕ оf a саrееr mоvе mаttеr, but they ѕhоuldn’t bе thе ѕоlе drіvеr of уоur dесіѕіоn.

Look for Better, Not Perfect

It’s easy to get frustrated when job hunting because you can’t find and/or don’t know what you want.  But the root cause of this is often that you’re looking for the perfect opportunity.  Go back and re-assess your career specs and identify the list of things you enjoy most and are skilled at, then start your career search.

What’s Your Competitive Edge?

Identify your five strengths

These strengths are the areas where you do very well.  This may take some thought on your part.

Give some thought to those skills in which you excel

Those that are referred to as the “soft skills”.  These skills can be viewed as transferable – you can take them with you to any job you hold.  Examples of these skills are your communication and people skills, or your time management and problem-solving skills, or your ability to build strong relationships, or your ability to influence others.

Adding your personal branding (i.e your uniqueness) to the “What I have to offer” list

Some postings will list additional skills required, which make it easier for you to see what is important to the company.