Do you want your boss's job?

So you want a promotion?  Being next in line doesn't mean that you will get the job.  You need to be pro-active in your reach for that next step up the ladder.  How do you do that?

• Develop the hard skills required to be a leader.
• Find out what your strengths and weaknesses are so that you may obtain professional development to overcome the weaknesses and enhance your strengths.
• Ask for work that will help build your experience level.  To be a leader you will need to manage projects from beginning to end.
• Shadow your boss and observe the interactions between subordinates and superiors.
• Ask someone in a position of authority to mentor you.
• Investigate and learn corporate and industry trends to be able to contribute in meetings.
• Be visible by participating in activities where senior management or board members may be active like charities that the company supports.
• Support your boss and do your job well even if you don't agree with the way he/she does things.

Let your boss know that you are interested in advancing - gaining the support of your superior is the best way to land the promotion.

What other things would you do?

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Where the jobs are in 2011

In the 1-9-2011 issue of the Wall Street Journal Sunday was an article discussing where you will find jobs in 2011.  Here is a synopsis of what they said:

• Service jobs - retail, IT, tech jobs
• Health care - nurses, medical scientists, physician assistants, skin-care specialist and dental hygienists
• Information Technology - to upgrade and customize equipment, provide technical support and to teach people how to use the upgrades.
• Financial Services - as business builds, lending activity will increase
• Scientific and technical jobs -research and development positions for companies to bump up production
• Sales and customer service positions
• Business development and marketing

Temporary positions - as businesses begin to expand, temporary positions will fill the need of additional employees without taking on the overhead of actually hiring them onto a companies' payroll.

Avoid public sector positions and non-profit organizations that depend upon government contracts. There will be cuts that will impact positions in both of those areas.