The beginning of the year probably has you wondering what the next 10 months holds, especially when you take a look at the career path you have chosen.

Sometimes it seems that it’s not only life that’s running away from you, but your workplace, too, changing rapidly right before your eyes.

Unfortunately, the only person who can change this feeling is you.

Cape Town and UK-based online education game-changers, GetSmarter, have released 2017’s edition of the highly anticipated 25-page career trend Guide – which focuses on the four key strategic priorities for New Professionals who are looking to grow their careers against a backdrop of unprecedented global shifts in the working world.

Here’s a breakdown of each of the Career Guide‘s chapters:

1. WORK WITH GREAT PEOPLE FIRST, THE REST WILL FOLLOW
   You know you can’t achieve your career ambitions alone. It’s time to make yourself known as a resource for others when they’re stuck, and ensure you’re always ready to take charge and steady the ship in a crisis. The only way to get ahead in today’s interconnected world is to care deeply about the development of others and use your influence to be a rising tide in the teams you work within.
2. OPTIMISE YOUR ENVIRONMENT FOR OPTIMAL PRODUCTIVITY
   A key character trait of the New Professional is knowing how to self-direct to drive for the right results. Being tenacious in improving both yourself and your environment, and using your decisive productivity to create motion and momentum in others, is something you don’t necessarily need to be in the office all day, every day, to achieve.
   
3. FUTURE-PROOF YOUR CAREER PATH
   The New Professional’s personal motto is “Quit or be exceptional.” To stand out from the crowd in 2017, you need to make sure mediocrity isn’t something you’re known for. And shaking up the status quo means devising a clear, strategic vision for the future of your career, or – as the case may be – your next career, job title, or salary increase.
4. SHIFT YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL PARADIGMS
   The New Professional is a future-orientated, global thinker and a ferocious learner. If you’re ready to disrupt the traditional ways of doing business you need to feed your curiosity. To make it big in any industry, you need to constantly open your eyes to new opportunities – the kind that stretches you beyond your capabilities and strengthens your professional potential.

The Career Guide, first created by GetSmarter in 2013 and released annually since, has been downloaded by over 40 000 workplace professionals wanting exclusive access to the latest industry insights, workplace trends, and career advice in order to kickstart a successful career strategy.

A beautifully presented PDF, download it (FOR FREE) to learn all you need to know about this year’s most disruptive workplace trends; managing an ever-more multigenerational workforce; and bridging your own skills gaps to ensure you use this year to carve out a career path you’ll love.

Download The New Professional’s Career Guide to 2017 today.

[Source:getsmarter.com]