The following steps are necessary for choosing your ideal career if you really want to achieve success in it:
1. DISCOVER YOUR GIFT Your Gift is the Catalyst to Your Career Success!
You need to discover your gift or talent – that is your God-given ability to do something exceedingly well. This is important because your talent is the foundation that will facilitate your progress in whatever you’re doing. You may ask: how do I discover my talent? The truth is that your maker who gave you the talent(s) does not keep you in the dark about such life-defining gifts: He has given you several clues that will lead you to self-discovery. If you are in the dark, ask Him.
2. CHOOSE YOUR IDEAL CAREER
Your Career Must Match Your Personality!
Discover your personality type, which is essentially made up of your talents and your interests or passion. Choose your ideal career, which is the type of career that corresponds with your personality type. This is important because it has been discovered from several studies that doing what you love to do, and what you are naturally gifted to do, is more likely to lead to greater productivity and overall career success than pursuing a career in a strange field that you’re not really interested in. It is equally important to make sure that the career you are pursuing is really marketable within the socio-economic environment within which you find yourself.
3. DEFINE YOUR PRECISE PURPOSE
Your Dream Determines Your Destiny!
The next critical step to career success is to define your precise purpose. Ask yourself: What is precisely the purpose of my life? What is my real purpose in doing what I am doing? Of course, everything on earth was created to serve its definite purpose. Therefore, there must be a purpose to your life. This purpose is precisely why you were born. You must define your purpose and start acting in the manner that truly serves the purpose of your life. If you don’t know the purpose of your life, you will end up abusing your opportunity to live.
4. MAKE PLANS TO ACHIEVE YOUR PURPOSE
Fail to Plan and You Plan to Fail
Once you have discovered your life purpose, you’ve taken a significant step towards career success. Discovering your purpose gives you the mental picture of what you want for your life. This picture engages your mind and produces in you the dream you want to realize; it gives you the passion to start working towards achieving that dream. At this juncture, you must take the next wise step to avoid laboring in vain. You have to produce a plan for achieving your purpose.
Planning is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities necessary for achieving a desired goal. Purpose and planning must work hand in hand for success to be achieved. Without planning, purpose cannot be achieved. You must be clear about what you want to achieve: that is purpose. You must also be clear about what you have to do in order to achieve it: that is planning.
5. DEVELOP YOUR SKILLS
Self-Development Enhances Productivity!
The importance of skill acquisition in career development cannot be overemphasized. In today’s competitive environment, it is not enough to be intellectually qualified for a position in an organization. You must develop yourself by acquiring skills that will enable you to function effectively in that position.
6. PROVIDE A PRODUCT OR SERVICE
Bring Value into the Marketplace and You Get Paid
If you choose to pursue a career as an entrepreneur, for example, you need to turn your ideas into products or services. This is quite critical to your personal success, because this is when you actually bring value into the marketplace in order to get paid. A product is defined as a set of benefits offered for exchange and can be tangible (a physical object) or intangible (a service). In whatever field you have chosen to pursue your career, you must bring some value into the marketplace if want to get paid.
7. MAXIMIZE YOUR MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES
Success is Never Achieved without Sales
We have learnt that providing a product or service is the key element of business success. You need to position yourself well in the market by ensuring that your product is excellent both in content and packaging. This is exactly what will place you on the high road to great sales and profitability. Marketing is critical to career success, whether you’re producing products or rendering services. Your focus should be on how to attract customers and start making the much desired sales. If you’ve learnt skills capable of providing solutions to people’s problems, you need to market your skills to attract clients or employers as the case may be. You must learn the principles and strategies you can use to achieve this.
8. BE GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF CAREER SUCCESS
While you take all the necessary steps towards achieving success in your career, you must be guided by certain principles that both facilitate and sustain career success. These principles are like the roots which are the hidden support for the tree. Don’t forget that although the roots are hidden, yet without them there would be no tree, and certainly no fruits. Principles are moral rules or beliefs about what is right or wrong, that influence how a person behaves. The principles you have or lack combine to form your character. Yes, character is a combination of traits and qualities distinguishing the individual nature of a person. As the roots provide support and nutrients to enable the tree to bear fruits, so character supplies the energy that fuels the capacity to take action. The actions you take and the results they produce (success or failure) are the visible fruits. On the other hand, character is the root; it is not visible and therefore is often ignored, yet it is the real force that influences the way you behave, the actions you take or fail to take and so forth. Thus, character is the root of career success.
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For a detailed audiovisual discussion on the real keys to achieving amazing career success, you may watch the following video lectures:
- 8 KEYS TO AMAZING CAREER SUCCESS
- 5 THINGS TO CONSIDER IN CHOOSING A CAREER
