There has never been a more critical time to take an active role in your planning career advancement than now. With hundreds of thousands of top salary jobs left unfilled due to lack of qualified candidates having both the hard and soft skills to fill them, yet millions of people out of work, it is clear that there was a lack of career planning on many fronts. Keep your career ahead of the curve and develop and implement an intentional career advancement plan. Here is a quick list of some of the things you should consider when developing your career advancement plan this month.

Your workplace has changed radically during the past five years and will continue to change during the next five years. It may seem that the best thing to do is sit back and wait until things settle to plan your next career move, since long-term planning seems futile. The truth is that this is the best time to examine options, plan career advancement, and take control of your own career success. Not doing so may lead your career to obsolescence.

When advancing to a leadership role in the workplace, there are critical skills you must master in order to be successful in your new role. It is no secret that the workplace has changed, and with those changes have come new ways to effectively lead and motivate your team.
In our latest video, we highlight [...]

Since, the number of professionals interacting on social media sites is increasing daily, it is important not to over look this for networking as well. Your career success can be enhanced if you use a few online networking tips.

It’s no secret that the workforce is changing and if you want to stay competitive in your job, there are a few things you can do to make yourself stand out and be promoted faster. In our latest video, we give you a few quick tips and tell you how to apply these [...]

Its the season of events and a great time to dust of those networking skills. Learning tips of networking is vitally important in today’s work environment because a strong network is a major key to career success. No matter your industry, networking is essential to career advancement and important to your professional growth and development. Its [...]

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In the workplace, soft skills are essential for career advancement. It is easy to determine how to gain the hard skills for career success, hard skills being education, experience and training. Soft skills, however, are more often personal attributes, traits and characteristics that are less likely to be formally taught, though they can be learned. These are essential to accelerate your career success.

By Susan M. Grant
As a reader of Positively Successful, you know that your career success relies on you taking charge of your own career.  As the CEO of You, you can glean some lessons from the process of starting and growing a business.
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The old adage says if you fail to plan, you plan [...]

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Regardless of the kind of work you do, your workplace has changed radically during the past five years, and will continue to change during the next five years. It may seem that the best thing to do is sit back and wait until things settle before planning your next career move [...]