How a process-based approach in a career can help you become a successful professional

Most professionals start their career based upon their educational background and personal interest. After joining a job and settling down, career runs by the schedule and consecutive tasks are executed to meet one’s job requirements. 

Everything seems fair and square until and probably after a year or two in the job, a feeling of stagnation creeps into the mindfulness of slower career growth and discontent income. At times, convinced and hides behind a conspiracy theory that certain external factor and/or people are responsible for these pessimistic outcomes.

Bottomed out, finally deciding to look at other job opportunities as a sincere effort to enhance and fulfill the missing components in the existing one. Perhaps finds a job offer or two, then decides to join the new company; only to realize the same scenario repeats sooner again but with a different cast and crew. And the career cycle continues...

A career will become successful, provided one takes a systematic approach. Apart from psychology, ethics, and management are important aspects of a successful career. Like any other good business, a progressive career needs a process.

Process

The reason career progression becomes difficult at times is because we let our emotions drive it rather than the process. Our emotions keep changing with every instance we face at our work and most of the decisions are emotion driven.

Understanding the process includes deciding on a Goal, Self-Evaluation and Defining the Rules.

Career Goal

A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot – Joe Vitale.

Creating career goals is a must and the first step to start a successful career. Spend time to understand yourself better and fix up an area of desired interest which directly complements your core strengths.

Self-Evaluation                                                                                                      

Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.

Schedule self-evaluation at regular intervals. Tabulate, what went well during the past-period at work and where are the areas you need improvement. Figure out ways to out-beat your working performance. Do always not press for perfection; Continuous improvement is better than a delayed perfection- Mark Twain.

Define Your Rules

This is the key aspect of the entire process. Know what should be done and make it a rule, tweak them if necessary but make sure to follow them to the best with all your heart, mind, and soul.

Everybody has the desire to do something in their career, but they don’t know how to really complete the process of dedicating themselves and having the discipline to do it. If you have a desire, you’ve got to match the desire with Dedication and you’ve got to match the desire with Discipline.

Success in career may not happen at the moment that you wanted to, but you got to understand the process. Everybody wants it yesterday. Take it one step at a time, one day at a time.

Trust the process, a successful career is a process, it is going to take time, but you will make it if you don’t give up.

Best Regards,

Joshua Kirupakaran