Ways To Kickstart Your Career Goals
Kickstart Your Career Goals
Are you planning your career goals for the new year? here are ways to kick start with assurance of good end results.
1. Recognize the type of job you want
2. Improve Your Tech Skills and Boost Your CV
3. Do an internship or get work experience
4. Build a brilliant online portfolio (LinkedIn & Facebook)
5. Network with the right people and start job hunt.
Recognise the type of job you want
Finding the perfect job that suits your personality and skills can be tough. Infact, that is the reason so many people spend the bulk of their working life miserable.
Idenfying your career passion and interest, then evaluating the previous jobs and roles you've had would be a good start on the road to this discovery.
Think about the following:
1. Think deeply about your career passion and life interests.
2. What role have you also enjoyed most in the past?
3. Evaluate your past accomplishments that you are very proud of?
4. What are a few things that you can easily do without feeling pressured?
5. The answers to above questions will help you to discover your skills and passions to start with.
Improve Your Tech Skills and Boost Your CV
Another important step in achieving your goals for 2021 is by improving your tech or IT skills and updating your CV with recent marketable skills.
Below are some of the steps that you can follow to do that:
1. Dedicate time to evalute your tech or IT interests and choose the one that's in relation with your career
2. Apply with a tech institute whether online or offline
3. Identify your favourite tech-related media outlets for tech updates
4. Create your own public profile as a professional
5. Use online tools to update your CV with your qualifications and skills
Do an Internship or get work Experience
In most companies, before you can get a position, you need a previous role so doing an internship or getting some past work experience would help out.
Here are some ways.
Volunteering for a job: This is the fastest way to get some work experience, you can easily go to people who wants some simple job done even if it's free and work with them to gain experience while doing that.
Working Part Time for a small company or startup: You can also work part time for a smaller company or start-up with lesser requirements for employment to gain skills
Freelancing: This is the most popular option, you can freelance for companies and individuals at your own pace and also make money while gaining experience.
Build a brilliant online portfolio
Building a strong portfolio is very important to landing new clients and growing yourself. Your portfolio is a reflection of who you are, your previous working experience, and what you can do for your prospective clients. An online portfolio is a great way of attracting new customers and clients, so it is very important that you put your best foot forward when developing your portifolio.
Here are seven simple steps to help you create, develop, and get your portfolio found online.
The seven steps include:
1. Choosing the right platform.
2. Showcasing your work with a story.
3. Staying connected.
4. Providing social proof
5. Display quality on your portifolio by showing potential employees why they should choose you over others.
6. Be client oriented; in your portifolio, think like a client.
7. SEO.
Network with the right people and start job hunt
The final Piece is Networking; it is important you create a network of professionals in you desired field, that way, you can easily be updated on offers and also be recommended by your contacts.
When networking online, for example LinkedIn you should always remember to keep track of who you have emailed and where you have posted so you can follow up on them later.
Job hunting can be effectively achieved using any of the following jobs platforms: Indeed, Glassdoor and LinkedIn Jobs, Google for Jobs, Monster Jobs etc.
