Tips For Standing Out At Your Job

More than likely, you have heard it said – at least once before in your life – “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” And when it comes to the business world, this quote is quite true. But when it comes right down to it in business, it is even less about “who you know,” and is more about “who knows you.” If you are working at a company and wondering why you are not receiving the promotions you feel you deserve, it might be because the right people do not “know” you. If you want the right people to start to take notice of you, the first thing you need to learn is how to stand out at your job.

There is a lot more to standing out at your job than just drawing attention to yourself. After all, a lot of forms of attention are nothing but negative attention, which will certainly not help you to get that raise or promotion. Therefore, it is vital for you to learn the ways to draw positive attention to yourself.

By silently doing more than what is expected of you, you will be doing one of the biggest things possible for drawing positive attention your way. By doing more than what is expected of you, you are sure to get people to notice. And when you are doing it silently, just going about your business and not calling for people to notice, people will not just take notice, but they will take positive notice! It should be your silent goal to outwork everyone else on your project team. If you boss asked you to return a report to him, you should research more thoroughly and make it more polished than he could have expected.

Another great way to draw positive attention to yourself is by showing up to work early all the time, and by leaving work late all the time as well. This might seem like it will make a big dent in your life, but even by consistently showing up fifteen minutes early and staying fifteen minutes late, you will ensure that people take notice. Furthermore, if you examine a “typical day” closely, you will probably find at least thirty wasted minutes hidden in there somewhere! Cut this time out, and use it to draw positive attention to yourself.

It is not difficult to get ahead in the business world. You only have to make sure you are doing good work, and you have to make sure you are doing this good work in such a way that you are drawing positive attention to yourself.

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