The Top 10 Secrets to Managing Your Career for Optimum Satisfaction - #6

6. Demonstrate your value proactively when annual review time comes.
Rather than relying on vague statements about feeling like you’ve improved over the past 12 months, keep a record (file, folder, or computer document) of your accomplishments during the year. You can use these both to support a request for a promotion or raise at annual review AND to keep your resume current in case a new job opportunity comes along.

Marcia Bench, MCCC, CBC, CMP; author of 15 books including the new Career Coaching: An Insider’s Guide, Founder/Director of Career Coach Institute, can be reached at coach@careercoachinstitute.com, or visited on the web at www.careercoachinstitute.com. Marcia is a Master Certified Career Coach with 20 years' experience in career development. Her passion is to help people discover and operationalize their life purpose through in their work.

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