Are you feeling stuck in your career?

In order to advance in your job or build your career, you need to make a little bit of progress each day.

There are people who go to work just for the paid position or regular employment.

Some find their jobs as opportunities to socialize or to impress the bosses. They take the casual approach in getting their jobs done.

They fail to see that their occupations can provide the knowledge, skills and experiences toward their personal growth and development.

Career advice for the employed and job seekers.

• What are your employment goals?

If you do not have any, it is about time that you identify and list them down.

1. What is your ideal job or position?
2. How much do want to earn?
3. What kind of contribution and service do you wish to provide?
4. Are you passionate about what you are doing or plan to achieve?
5. Is your job giving you the opportunity for progress and promotion?
6. Does it challenge you or allow for personal growth?

It is important that you know what you like best. By doing what you enjoy, you will put your heart and soul into your work.

Once you have clearly stated your goals, you will feel enthusiastic and push yourself to take action.

You might suddenly realize that you would do better with a career change or pursue new opportunities.

• Identify, develop and gain the required knowledge and skills.

If you realize that your current knowledge and skills are insufficient for your chosen field, you may need to learn and gather more information.

What is required is your commitment to learn new things and put the ideas to work. Specialized knowledge breaks you free from limitations.

• Manage your time and your tasks

You can get more work done when you practice managing time and your tasks. Engaging in activities that are time wasters and majoring in minor tasks reduce productivity and affect performance and efficiency.

It is comfortable to stay away from challenges and risks and join the majority of people who enjoy idle conversations and the unimportant issues.

But that also means that you are not making yourself valuable in your field or industry.

Check on how much time you spend on each activity. Focus on more important and high priority tasks and check your progress.

Plan your activities in advance and think of the strategies required. You need to take action immediately, move faster and get more right things done in less time.

• Go the extra mile. Put in the effort.

It takes hard work, lots of discipline, positive thinking and the right attitude to gain any kind of success.

To become outstanding in your vocation you may need to put in more effort than others do.

Your results and outputs are determined by how much you are willing to do and dare. The amount of extra labor and effort you put in by learning and doing will provide you the opportunities for future expansion and promotion.

Your successful career might embark in your present organization or in another industry.

The experiences, knowledge and skills that you gain and practice in your work are never wasted. Sooner or later you will find them useful.

• Improve your networking and build better relationships.

In the course of your work you will meet many people. Get to know them, learn from watching them interact, behave and act.

Model successful people that you meet and ask them questions and let them teach you.

Build better relationships with your co-workers and customers. Cultivate a circle of friends from different industries and profession because people are your resources.

Your network will provide you with more choices and opportunities to reach your goals.

You may not like your job now. You may even hate your boss. But while you are at it, get creative and learn. Put your ideas into effect. Dare to take some intelligent risks.

The worst that can happen is that your idea may not work. But if it does work, it is going to give you the confidence, the competence and the experience.

Build your reputation and character by becoming the person who make things happen. Create the energy and the enthusiasm.

Remember that no matter who you are working for and whatever career you choose, it is your life and you are the boss.

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