Actions that will take your career ahead.

AIAA's provides a list of helpful actions for assuring greater success in your career. No matter in what stage of your career you are in this checklist of action is the one that can help an individual to get the max out of his or her career.  See how many o them do you follow.


Assess yourself to define specific goals. Periodically check, reassess, extend, or modify goals.

Periodically access your goals, i like the system of my friend, his system of access is quarterly. He has divided the year in 3 months chunks. The first 3 months he strides to increase his skills. Get extra training and acquiring a new skill, the next 3 month he allots for the betterment of the existing skills he has and The next 3 months on the betterment of his communication skills and the last 3 months he devotes to read lot of he stuff on his chosen filed. Get this or your own assessment system in tune so you can measure yourself objectively.
   
     
Keep your resume current.

Even though you are not looking for a job, keeping the resume current means you are looking at the job skills that is being sought in the market and this help you to see what are the areas you need to work on.
   
   
Remain active in a professional society that represents your discipline, such as AIAA,AeSI

Remaining active in a professional society not only gives you a chance to network but to acquire social and communication skills that cannot be taught or learnt from textbooks.
   
Establish and maintain professional contacts.

Use groups like ouraesi, aeronautical society of India, http://ouraesi.ning.com. Participate in them, know more people of your domain. Learn about them
   
Write, publish, and present your own work at technical meetings.
  
Find opportunities to write and publish your work. This one is more easy for the guys working in public sector companies but is also true for the private sector companies. You might have developed a new technique to ease the performance analysis of gas turbine, you know  trick to mesh the fuselage or engine casing more quickly, share that knowledge, publish it. If technical publication is not possible, may be begin and write a blog or post about it in ouraesi group. You know http://ouraesi.ning.com network gives you the chance to have a blog in your profile.
   
Stay abreast of new developments in your field by subscribing to appropriate periodicals, attending workshops and seminars, and traveling to international and national conferences when feasible.

Pursue additional formal education and on-the-job training to remain competitive in an increasingly complex work world.

Just getting job is not important, improve your skills. See what is required learn it.
   
Maintain an appropriate balance among family, career, community, and recreation.

Manage money wisely and make intelligent purchases. Periodically seek professional advice about financial planning matters.

Sustain good physical and mental fitness.

Enhance organizational and interpersonal skills, including communication, interviewing, and networking.

Remain adaptable to all changes (technological, social, etc.) implemented in the world of work.


Well this was AIAA's list of helpful actions for assuring greater success in your career! So have a great career. Tell us any other actions that you think the list missed.

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