7 Pro Tips for Setting Yourself Up for Success in the New Year

After conducting a career assessment, it’s time to chart your career path for the year to come. In order to get you there, here are a few tips from some career experts for creating a roadmap to achieving success.

Make Yourself Valuable & Your Work Quantifiable

Executive Recruiter and Career Transition Coach Brian Howard said you can make yourself more valuable as a professional by going over and above what is required of you in the workplace. Howard, who operates the website The Motivated Job Search and has authored a series of books on conducting a successful career search, said the first step is making yourself as close to irreplaceable as you can.

“You need to make yourself valuable so that if you should ever leave, it’s going to hurt and the people in power realize it,” said Howard.

Additionally, when you’re ready to advance your career through a raise, promotion, or position with a new organization, you need to be able to speak in numbers. Use facts and figures to demonstrate how you have helped your company achieve its goals or how you have made yourself more marketable in the past year.

While anyone can attest to their own value, numbers such as annual sales figures, new clients landed, or direct contributions to a company’s…