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Meaning

Career advancement is moving up in


your career through experience,
training and/or education. With career
advancements comes high salary. So in
short it means Activities that promote
job growth or expansion of job roles or
responsibilities
Misconceptions regarding career
advancement.
The belief that producing results in your
current job is sufficient.
Confidence that youll get the feedback
you need from your boss in your annual
performance review
The sense that promotions are all about
who you know
A nave belief that all it takes is adding a
little polish, a new suit, a new style
Checklist of best Practices for Career
Advancement:
First, Take steps to tease out two vital pieces of
information:
The factors that senior-level decision
makers in your company use to make
promotion and placement decisions and
How you are viewed by senior management
in terms of those skills.

Secondly, determine whether
you are in an assignment where you can
display the necessary capability or need
to engineer a move to a new job that
allows you to do so.
Next step is to seek out candid feedback
on your executive presence and dig
below surface issues related to dress,
grooming, and personal carriage.

For Higher Authorities:
Define clear expectations.
Review current projects and whether these
projects will help with promotion.
Develop a plan that is reviewed annually or
more frequently
Consider providing bridge funding if a clear
program for refocusing has been developed.
Provide incentives and additional
resources for refocusing
Conclusion:
So career advancement is an activity/
initiative by which a person develops his/her
career through various means.
But if a person misinterprets the structure
which enables career advancement then
he/she will tend to be on a losing side and
this would mean that there will be no gain to
both sides thus bringing down the
organisation performance as a whole.
Abstract:
Career Advancement is a topic which brings out
the ways and mediums to improve or enhance a
persons career opportunity. This topic highlights
the important points which a person must look in
to while doing his career development/career
enhancement process. It is quiet necessary to
understand the various avenues of this topic and
also to highlight the misinterpretations
which a person has regarding this issue.

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