What do you think it takes to be successful in this job?

Answer 1

First, you need to determine what "success" means for you. Examples: ability to apply knowledge, experience and wisdom, authenticity, desire to leave a legacy, building lasting relationships, receiving appreciation, recognition, promotions or having a title, making X# of income or retiring at a young age, having time to enjoy life, family, friends, networking, and learning you preferred style: do you need to exercise creativity or function better with structure, independence or team work, etc., etc.

The question you need to ask is: How will you know you have achieved a "successful career"? What will it look like, feel like? The more you are able to articulate and visualize your ideal of a successful career, the more you will be on the path to realizing it.

Second, you need to know what you are truly passionate about. Where do you experience energy and life? Doing what you are passionate about is critically important, otherwise you're just going through the motions of a job. You may be successful by worldly standards, but your inner moral compass won't be guiding you to your true north. And no matter how successful you appear, you will know your missing the mark.

We don't so much "get" a successful career, as we test our choices against our values and then seek, create, labor, work towards goals, one of which may be a successful career. A truly successful career will be a "vocation." Frederick Beuchner writes that vocation is "A place where your deepest desires and the world's needs or hunger meet." Willingness to risk and try different ways of doing things, as well as a healthy skepticism that looks beneath the surface and identifies illusions, false promises, contrary goals is also beneficial. Finally, taking failure and failures not as a measure of your worth but as a recognition that at least you were willing to risk and try something, always learning from your mistakes and using these experiences to fine tuning your values and goals. The clearer you are on what "success" and "career" mean for you, the more you will know who you are being called to do, and more importantly who you be.

Answer 2

personal growth?

wealth?

Long term working relationship?

Career status (Manager, CEO, Director)?

Career ownership?

Which one would you consider for the criteria the measure your career successful level?

Answer 3

To be successful in your work, you must acquire a vision. A vision is a clearly articulated picture of the future you intend to create for yourself. In other words, it's a dream. However, if the dream does not have direction, it will always remain a dream and will never become a reality for you. That vision should create a passion within you, a love for what you do and the benefit it will bring to others as well as yourself. Make sure the vision is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and tangible. Let us look at this closer. When you believe you have chosen an appropriate career goal, look at it in SMART fashion as follows.

• Specific - Make sure your career goal is very specific. For example, "I would like to be a teacher," is not specific. "I would like to be a high school Biology teacher in New Jersey (USA) in an urban school by 2012" is.
• Measurable - Make sure you can measure your progress. How will I know I am progressing in the right direction? This is where the development of short-term objectives comes in (discussed below). You will know you are on the right path as you accomplish each short -term objective.
• Achievable - Is the goal achievable considering my current life situation and circumstances?
• Realistic - Is what I want to do really realistic. For example, "I would like to be a middle weight boxing champion, and I am 63 years old." That is not realistic.
• Tangible - What will I - specifically - have at the end? What will I be (exactly)? It must be very specific.

Once you acquire that vision your path will become clear. Still, you will need a mentor, counselor, or coach who will be able to help you develop a road map embedded with short-term objectives leading to your overall career goals and objectives. The achievement of short-term objectives will indicate you are moving in the correct direction, and will also give you energy and excitement to carry on towards your overall career goal. It will take some research, but you most likely have some ideas already. Follow them through, look at the nature of the field, the everyday routine, the required education, the salary, the occupational demand and the related fields. When a career sparks an interest, try to shadow an individual who is actually doing what you think you might like to do. You can pick up valuable information this way. Thus, the following.

• Acquire the will to change circumstances.
• Acquire the vision (dream).
• Develop a road-map embedded with short-term objectives leading to your overall goal and objective.
• Just do it and do not let go until it becomes a reality.

Answer 4

The ability to solve problems independently with minimal supervision.