Friday's Rocket Fuel: Personal Develolop Fuels Career Development

By Larry Boyer, Career Coach & Personal Branding Strategist

In order to advance in your career or move to a better job you need to develop and enhance your skills - technical skills and soft skills. Personal Development and Professional Development are the drivers of your ongoing career development. Every time you enhance your skills it is like receiving a capital infusion into your business, the business of You, Inc.  In fact, in today's fast changing world you need to be constantly learning something new just to keep up!

Think about something as mundane as your cell phone. How have cell phones evolved over the last few years as smart phones became increasingly popular and are now the standard? Now think about your job. What has changed over the last few years? Are you an old school phone in a smart phone world in your career? Are you looking ahead to see where you want your career to go?

This weekend make a list of the skills you need or want to develop so that you can get the job you want or do even better at the job you currently have.