Theme: Career Responsibility

6. Be proactive.  Drive your career don’t let it just happen to you. Re-read our article ‘Your Career by Design’ and take control of your career, your life, your destiny. 

7. Take action.   Use ‘Your Career by Design’ to plan your strategy. Once you’ve decided what career success will look like to you, figure out how you will fill in the gaps and build up your skills and competencies.

8. Remain open-minded. Being open-minded requires you to be receptive to new and different ideas and ways of doing things. It suggests impartiality and is a vital component of critical thinking and reasoning.  If you are open minded you will consider experiences, suggestions and opinions on their own merit. You will be prepared to alter, or add to, your world-view with this new-found knowledge. And that includes a willingness to be corrected and admit your mistakes (and we all make them!)