Evaluate educational requirements and explore training or formal educational opportunities that will stimulate you as well as qualify you for new positions. Seek out special projects and task forces within your current organization. You'll expose yourself to new opportunities in different parts of the organization when you establish communication channels with new colleagues from other divisions and departments. Affiliate yourself with professional organizations. A circle of colleagues with different backgrounds and experiences exposes you to lateral and promotional options outside your organization.
Colleagues provide information and valuable support that helps facilitate career moves.
Get involved with your community. Volunteer your expertise at the library, the local school, the community center, fraternal organizations, or wherever you please. You'll provide needed community support and you'll benefit too through an expanded network and the creative stimulation fueled by using your skills in new environments. Set yourself simple goals to build a solid foundation for career success in 2001. One of the ways that audit departments measure how they are doing is by asking clients or customers to rate their audit work.