New Year’s Career Resolutions

Julie Redfield

Work At Home Business Options

1 January 2012

Julie Redfield, talent management expert at PA Consulting Group, provides New Year’s Career Resolutions – 10 Resolutions to advance your career in 2012

Creating career resolutions are a critical component for your success, and a new year brings new opportunities.  Julie Redfield offers the following New Year’s career resolutions to take on in 2012 to help advance your career:

1.    Build my professional network: reconnect with school friends, prior employers and others in my profession. You never know where that next opportunity will come from!

2.    Identify a mentor, at least two levels up from me, and ask them for career advice. (People love being asked for their opinion, and often mentors will open up doors for you)

3.    Clarify my priorities and 2012 objectives with my boss. Ask what a “great” performance would look like for me.

4.    Identify one person in the office that I don’t know, and make an effort to get to know them and learn what their career aspirations are.

5.    Make sure my boss knows my career aspirations.

6.    Dress like I’m the CEO. (You always want to dress for the job you want to have.)

7.    Set a daily list of priorities for myself.

8.    Ask my boss every Monday what’s on his or her worry list, and offer my help.

9.    Give at least one person a genuine compliment every day. Be specific with what I appreciate about that person.  

10.    Rather than join in the water cooler conversation about something negative, I’m going to ask people what they are going to do about solving the problem.

Julie Redfield is a talent management expert at PA Consulting Group. She brings crisp clear solutions to complex people issues, combining the human perspective with sound business practices, preparing companies to have the right people ready for the right roles at the right time. She brings a commercial focus to the HR function by having it motivate and engage employees, focus on business outcomes and drive bottom line growth.

To read the article in full, please click here.

To find out how PA can support you in achieving excellence in people and talent management, please, please click here or contact us now.