New Year career resolutions

Career new year resolutions: 10 things you need to do.

By this time in January many of us are already giving up on the resolutions we set ourselves at the start of the year. So I thought it appropriate to offer my advice on what you should be doing to enhance your career in 2012.

Create time to think about your career.
Write down where you would like to be or have achieved in terms of personal development in 12 months time.
Seek feedback from someone who knows you well as to whether this goal is attainable.
Write down a plan of what you need to put in place to achieve the objective.
Set yourself 2 or 3 milestones which you will need to achieve in order to reach your overall goal.
Identify within your network 2/3 people with whom you have a strong relationship and they have power of influence i.e. if they put in a call on your behalf, the recipient will take it, and make them aware of your career plan for this year.
Share your career plan with your boss or one of his/her peers.
Set yourself the task of helping 5 people in your network, what you do is not important, provided it adds value to them.
Set time aside to understand your personal brand. What is it you want to be known for? Think of two things you need to do to enhance that personal brand.
Commit to spending time to learn a new skill or to increase your knowledge in a subject area that will increase your employability.