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Reaching your work goals may look like a daunting task at first. With careful planning and implementation of right strategies, you can step up the career ladder quicker than you thought of. Here are few tips on how to get promoted at work quickly:



Continue learning

Learning is a lifelong process. To grow in your career, it is imperative that you keep accumulating knowledge across industries' trends, challenges and insights. Staying updated about your domain knowledge enables you to tackle challenges at work more efficiently and higher your chances of getting noticed by employers.

Lead when required

To take charge in a work environment doesn't always require you to be in a top position. You can assume a leadership role when circumstances demands at workplace. Exhibit your leadership skills while solving a critical problem at work by effectively communicating, motivating and working in coordination with other team members. Also start taking responsibilities a level in advance to show that you are ready for the next role.

Give your best

When you give your best in your work, you stay visible for your passion and performance. If you want to add more value to your work, then go t

Check out a nice sample of some behavior based questions you may encounter in interviews these days. It would be wise to have an answer or two for each of the questions listed.

A cover letter gives you a chance to make a case for yourself, and cover everything you cannot express in your resume. It affords you an opportunity to come across as real people and explain your suitability for the desired position, to potential employers. Companies often look for thoughtfully written cover letters, as a method of screening applicants who lack the necessary skills or interest for the said position. Cover letter can thus form into a marketing vehicle for any prospective job seeker.

Toodledo is a task list tool which helps you organize all your projects and tasks. Since it's online, it's accessible anywhere you need it, including on your iPhone. There is a free version as well as a paid version, which the main difference is sub-tasks and the length of time your completed tasks are stored. Be sure to check out the comparison chart to see how Toodledo compares to the competition. One great way I've used Toodledo is integrated to an iPhone app called Appigo Todo. It helps you manage all your tasks in a way that follows the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The products work well together and really help with tracking your tasks as well as seeing accomplishments.

Going for an interview is like going for a first date. You want to look and behave your best at your first date/interview, to grab your potential date/employer's attention. Like in a date so in an interview, you get only one chance to create an impeccable first impression, to prove why you are the perfect match for the job.

A company's biggest asset is its 'employees'. Without them, a company cannot grow, thrive and expand in new frontiers. Employees with intelligence, confidence, drive and integrity can take a company to new heights and help garner greater business success.

Lifehacker tips on making a great resume and business plan.

Odesk is a way of connecting people to employers online and building a reputation for your skills and services. Check out the video on the home page. It explains how the service works and how a distributed workteam can benefit companies and workers.

While not a cloud app, Open Office gives you basically all the features of Microsoft Office except the price. Open Office is a free product to download and has equivalent programs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. If you're used to having MS Word before you left your last employer and don't want to shell out the dough for your own copy of MS Office, give Open Office a try. It even allows you to save your files in MS Office formats so you're sure everyone else you give the file to can read it. Open Office also allows you to output your files as PDF documents.

In this fiercely competitive business environment you need proactive employees who can boost your organization's performance and productivity. And this criterion is even more critical when you are to hire a candidate for a managerial role

Sometimes writing one's own resume can be tedious and frustrating. Oftentimes, to create professional resume job seekers follow common formats & styles and end up with a boring resume. Undoubtedly, your resume plays a critical role in grabbing potential employers' attention

Evernote is a fantastic tool for clipping the Internet you like and finding it again in the future. It has free client software for Mac, PC, iPhone, and smartphones. Just clip anything you see on the web and add it to Evernote. Not only are you only saving the parts of the web page that interest you, there's always a link back to the source page so you can get back there if you want to later. Then you can organize your clipped content and find any keyword contained in it, including text that Evernote can read in pictures. For more information, be sure to watch the YouTube video on how Evernote works.

With increasing use of new media in recruitment, you need more than a resume to showcase your personal brand and stand out from your competitors. Regular CVs alone are not enough to convince potential employers why you should be chosen for a job. Let your 1-min unique self-promoting video and LinkedIn profile do the personal branding for you and help you get noticed by employers.

If you need to create a flowchart, Lovely Charts is a great alternative to Microsoft Visio. It's easy to use, web-based, and extremely flexible. Even if flowcharts aren't your thing, you can do it with Lovely Charts.

Choosing a career is easy but to be sure of its existence in future is pretty difficult. If you look decades back from now, you must have noticed a number of careers that existed but have become obsolete now. However, there are certain careers that are likely to exist in coming years regardless of economic situation or changing business requirements.