Every professional, young or experienced, aspire to be successful and achieve his career goals fast. Today’s professional world is extremely competitive and challenging. The workplace comprises of a wide range of personalities from the meek to the over-aggressive, from the self-doubters to the supremely confident ones. But success eludes a good chunk of the workforce who gradually fall behind the leading pack. As the gap widens with time, the laggards get demoralised, give up on the race and settle for second fiddle roles in the organisation. The race, the competition, the struggle, the fight, the frustration of failures, the sweetness of success, etc.—all are real. They are bound to be part and parcel of everyone’s life. Like it or not, these can’t be avoided as long as one has dreams to pursue.

1. How to be
Successful in your Career
By
Chandan Kumar Pathak

2. What Do You Dream of?
• A successful career
• Financial security and stability
• A happy & fulfilling life
• To make your parents proud & to care for them

3. Landscape of the Professional World:
1. Demanding, result driven, deadlines, stressful, fulfilling,
unforgiving, rewarding, addictive
2. Rat race – intense and unavoidable
3. Required - Consistent hi level performance, Constant evolution,
survival of the fittest
4. Who triumphs and who perishes?
 Well equipped, bold & adventurous ones triumph.
 The laggards with no self belief perish.

4. Career Graph:
• How your career graph should be? Up & up & up…right?
• This never happens in real life.
• Ups and downs; struggle, success, failures are part and parcel

5. One should try to achieve a growth
that lies in the area between ‘Good’&
‘Star’ performers

6. Essential Traits for Career Success:
1. Education & career choice
2. Hard work
3. Honesty and integrity
4. Make oneself visible
5. Right dose of confidence
6. Humility
7. Develop a strong network
8. Achieve work-life balance
9. Risk taking ability
10.Effective Leadership
11.Spirit of teamwork
12.Managing office politics

7. What Else is Needed?
• Do these ‘Essential Traits’ suffice to achieve the desired career
growth?
• The answer is ‘No’
• There are quite a few external factors also, that influence an
individual’s career progression.
• Are these external factors manageable by an individual?
• The answer is ‘No’

8. • Few examples of such external factors are:
oIndustry swings
oOrganization’s performance
oManagement’s perception
• Such external factors can decisively influence your career in a
positive or a negative way

9. It Sounds Confusing!
• ‘How to manage my career when there are things that are
not even in my control?’
• ‘What’s the point in putting all the hard work if office
politics or a bad boss can ruin my career?’
• ‘How come my friend got a plump job for which I was not
even considered?’
• So it gets confusing, right?

10. Theory of Dynamic Career
Management
• This is a tool that helps you in:
oAssessing your career progression at any stage
oQuickly identify whether your job situation is favorable or not
oDeciding whether you need to change your job or stick to it
oDetermining if you need to change the industry
• Graphical depiction of the tool -> next slide

12.  My recently published book ‘Ascending the
Summit’ is an effort to help & guide
professionals better manage his/her career.
 All aspects mentioned earlier and some more
are dealt in-depth in this book.
 Paperback & Kindle versions are available
on Amazon.

13. Thank You!