Career Acceleration Strategy: Assess Your Assets

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An asset is a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality. Your professional skills, talents, knowledge, connections, experiences, degrees and certifications, and opportunities. Assess your assets if you want to Get Promoted.

An assessment of your professional assets will help align your career with your values, increase your confidence, identify potential shortcomings, develop goals and plans, and prioritize your career.

There are many different methods that can be utilized to assess your assets, and all require you to take action.

Check out the Assess Your Assets video and view the checklist below.

8 Ways to Assess Your Professional Assets:

  1. Have a professional review your resume and cover letter.
  2. Survey family, friends, and/or colleagues about the things you are good at.
  3. Schedule an informational interview to learn more about skills needed to excel in your industry.
  4. Review your last performance review.
  5. Conduct a gap analysis.
  6. Conduct a SWOT analysis.
  7. Review your professional journal.
  8. Compile a career acceleration portfolio.

Check out my career acceleration series on Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting’s Facebook page.

Nicki Sanders, MSW, CEO, is a travel and cupcake lover with an aptitude for authentic connection and career acceleration. She has an extensive background in developing and managing successful programs and leading high-functioning multi-disciplinary teams. She is an accomplished professor, coach, trainer, and group facilitator who has merged her Master of Social Work degree and over 20 years of diverse work experience into a thriving business.  Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting helps businesses recruit and retain the best employees and helps women in mid-level management Get Promoted to the job of their dreams.  

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