Career Advice

Thank you for visiting Quest ontheFRONTIER. I suspect you may be wondering whether you are managing your career well and realizing fullest potential. Before you conclude or act, please ask yourself seven questions below that may help you determine the best course of action. Remember, it is not necessary nor advisable to change organizations. Grass often appears greener on the other side. In fact, it may be better to manage career within your current organization; you know the business and people and they know you.

  1. How well does your current role enable you to realize your fullest potential and ambitions? Are you being treated fairly?

    2. Tips on career advancement:

    Many career experts agree that the best time to look for a new job is while you are still comfortably in your old one. If you’re starting to feel unchallenged in your present position, you may be ready.
    Read more http://www.allbusiness.com/human-resources/careers-career-development/11128-1.html

  2. How satisfied you have been with the career advancement you have experienced in the recent past? When did you get your last promotion?

    3. Tips for successful career management:

    One variation of the saying goes, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do.” Or, as another puts it, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re likely to wind up somewhere else.”
    Read more: http://www.asuccessfulcareer.com/Sections-article8-p1.phtml

  3. How does your current role help learn and grow as an individual and a professional? What are your career plans?

    4. A Career Action Plan

    You should break your career plan down into goals you can reach in a year or less and goals you want to reach in five years or less.
    Read more: http://careerplanning.about.com/od/careeractionplan/a/action_plan_lng.htm

  4. How should you go about exploring opportunities outside your current organization? Do you develop and maintain contacts outside your current organization?

    5. Dig you well before you’re thirsty:

    Make a genuine effort to modernize your skills and knowledge. Learn the most important things a network can do.
    Read more http://www.harveymackay.com/books/book_dig.cfm

  5. How well does your resume market you as a product? Does it bring out the best you have to offer?

    6. Tips on CV writing

    A resume is quite simply an 'advert' to sell yourself to an employer. You should send a CV to an employer when they ask for one in a job advert, or when you are enquiring if any jobs are available. So the purpose of your resume is to make you attractive, interesting, worth considering to the company and so receive a job interview.
    Read more http://www.cv-masterclass.com/freereads-article003.html

  6. How best to prepare for an effective interview? Are you ready to sell yourself?

    7. Interview tips

    An employer may have several hundred enquiries about a single job, he or she will only choose a few people who appear suitable for interview.
    Read more http://www.awriteimpression.com/interview.htm

  7. How not to sell yourself short and negotiate a fair compensation package?

    8. Salary Negotiation tips

    Make sure you get every possible dollar by learning these five fundamental salary rules.
    Read more http://www.salarynegotiations.com/


For any specific career related questions, please write in with your brief resume and contact details to: jobs@questonthefrontier.com