30 Career Management Tips Document Your Accomplishments

30 Career Management Tips â€" Document your accomplishments This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: document your accomplishments. If we all agree that career management is something that needs to be practiced and not just pulled out of our job tool box every other year or so, then it follows that our accomplishments need to be documented. There are three good reasons to document accomplishments: If we wait to document our accomplishments, we will not be able to remember them or not be able to recall the salient points that will show the accomplishment as important to our personal branding audiences. What should we document? In the beginning, more than less. Later, when reviewing our accomplishments, we can determine which need to be pulled to the top. Accomplishments share these three common characteristics: Accomplishments are critical for career management today. With people moving from position to position within a corporation every year or so or between companies every 3-5 years, the documentation of real accomplishments will enable you to clearly explain how you deliver results. Delivering results is a key ingredient in becoming a cubicle warrior. […] Results differ from scale in that results are outputs of your work rather than the size of the job. Results, as I say, are accomplishments. […] Reply […] Instead, make a small goal for the next hour, complete tasks to reach your small goal and get to completion. Nothing gives people energy like an accomplishment. […] Reply […] If your manager isn’t willing to defend your realm, you’ll lose. And you did show your business accomplishments backed up by numbers when it came time for your self review, didn’t […] Reply […] 30 Career Management Tips â€" Document your accomplishments […] Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.