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\"career.advancement\"<\/a>Career advancement is a relative term.\u00a0 For some, it means climbing the organizational ladder until there is nowhere else to climb or you reach the highest rung relative to your area of expertise.\u00a0 For others, it means moving up the salary scale even if it means hopscotching from one organization to another.\u00a0\u00a0 In either case, there are a number of expertise and sector-independent approaches that can be highly effective career advancement strategies.<\/p>\n

First, understanding what drives the value of the organization where you work is essential.\u00a0 Once you know and master this, you become more valuable to the organization.\u00a0 The greater your value, the greater your chances for moving up the proverbial ladder of success.\u00a0 If your organization doesn\u2019t recognize it, then certainly your competition\u2019s organization will.\u00a0 Along those lines, never underestimate the power of networking.\u00a0 When people outside your organization know you have value inside your organization, it generates a higher value on you.\u00a0 The key is being noticed\u2026in a positive way of course, and not by your Facebook posts.\u00a0 Instead, writing articles for trade journals, being active in local chapters of various industry reputable organizations like the Project Management Institute if project management is something you are interested in, and giving presentations at local schools and colleges that have classes in topics where you might have a specialty.<\/p>\n

Second, enhance your effectiveness as a leader and motivator.\u00a0 Organizations that produce widgets do better when they produce more widgets at a lower cost.\u00a0 Being a strong and effective leader and motivator will likely amplify the organization\u2019s ability to produce.\u00a0 This takes practice and requires the desire to learn effective leadership techniques.\u00a0 Never stop learning\u2026by investing in yourself; you will always reap the reward of future dividends.\u00a0 Your organizational net worth increases when you become more effective at leading others.<\/p>\n

Third, and perhaps the most important career advancement strategy, is to know what you truly enjoy.\u00a0 If you are the type of person that loves solving problems, focus your energies on solving your organization\u2019s problems.\u00a0 Volunteer to head up a group that\u2019s focused on taking care of a specific business issue.\u00a0 Not only will you get noticed by the top management, you will learn a great deal along the way, which also amplifies your organizational net worth.\u00a0 Remember, do what you love, and love what you do.\u00a0 These strategies will almost certainly be rewarded as you move up throughout your career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Career advancement is a relative term.\u00a0 For some, it means climbing the organizational ladder until there is nowhere else to climb or you reach the highest rung relative to your area of expertise.\u00a0 For others, it means moving up the salary scale even if it means hopscotching from one organization to another.\u00a0\u00a0 In either case, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":1645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,4],"tags":[41,49],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advice","category-on-the-job","category-public-sector-trends","tag-career-advice-2","tag-career-strategies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThree Successful Strategies for Career Advancement in Government - 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In 2013, Dr. Falkow earned his Master of Arts in Security Studies, Homeland Defense and Security from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey where he received the Outstanding Thesis Award for his thesis entitled, Does Homeland Security Constitute an Emerging Academic Discipline? Finally, Dr. Falkow recently earned his Doctorate in Policy, Planning and Development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California in December of 2020 where he published his dissertation entitled, A Framework for Good Local Governance: Achieving Prosperity in an Increasingly Complex Environment. www.falkow.com","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.falkow.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mdfalkow","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michael-falkow-39906b1\/","https:\/\/x.com\/mfalkow"],"url":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/author\/mfalkow\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}