Managing your career

There are some rules to follow to ensure you are proactively managing your career to maximise future career opportunities:

• Take stock of recent achievements and personal development to ensure your CV is always up to date and you have a clear idea of what you need/want to achieve in the year ahead.
• Use your personal network and the ‘professional grapevine’. Actively meet up with potentially useful contacts in a social setting or attend ‘networking’ events in your current role which may afford the ‘excuse’ of meeting useful contacts.
• Always try and leave a role amicably, aim to maintain professional contact with decision makers, you never know where they will move onto themselves.
• Be constantly aware of your market, keep in touch with recruitment agents you feel you know well and make them aware you will always consider a great opportunity. You can always say ‘no’ but equally, give yourself the option to weigh up high quality opportunities against your current situation.
  

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