Career development: ways and strategies
Even the most magnificent opportunities for career growth can be reduced to nothing, if you do not continue to develop a career, do not strive for tops. Career development - this is a logical continuation of its launch, and therefore think over the ways and strategies for its development is still at the beginning of the labor activity in the company. How can you develop your career? The Country of Councils will tell about it.
HR specialists, when considering a resume for any open vacancy always pay attention to career travel of candidates. Often too sharp "jumps" in a career,unexplained and illogical at first glance, the transitions from the organization to the organization have a negative impact on the decision to admit the candidate. And more likely to have success in this situation have a resume, which reflects the "even" development of the career of the applicant.
Depending on the direction, the career is horizontal and vertical. So, a horizontal career is a risethe qualifications of the employee in his former position, the transfer of an employee to a similar position in another division of the company, an adjacent area of activity. Horizontal movements are accompanied by a corresponding increase in wages.
With a vertical career, the employee moves "up", from a lower to a higher position. It's a career in its classical sense. In this variant of career development, the employee, in addition to raising wages, also earns an increase in his status, so a vertical career is often called also a status career.
Depending on the key changes that occur during career movements allocate career as power, monetary, centripetal. The power career presupposes the expansion of the authority of the employee, the monetary one - the increase of wages, the centripetal career reflects the promotion of the employee to the company's management.
In practice, career development for only one of the types occurs rarely, most often the career is combined, when at different stages of work in the company employee goes different ways. Accordingly, the career development strategy at each stage can be different.
So, HR-specialists advise in the beginning of career development to constantly expand the horizon, to gain experience, though not always successful. The next stage of career development is stabilization, at this stage it is important not to "rest on our laurels" but continue to work actively on ourselves. If career ambitions of an employee are satisfied at some point in time by the established situation, then in the next stage of their career motivation may decline and then the employee faces dismissal.
Career development is a very important aspect of professional activity, because each person needs recognition of his professional qualities. Carefully thinking through the development of your career, you can achieve great heights!
