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." In the world of business, this is actually quite true. In business, however, it is less "who you know" and more "who knows you." Maybe you have been wondering lately why you are not getting the raises and promotions you feel you have earned; well, it might just 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.

In order to stand out at your job, you need to learn to do more than just draw 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.

Silently doing more than what is expected of you is one of the biggest ways you can draw positive attention to yourself. By doing more than what is expected of you, people will take notice. And people will take positve notice as you silently do more than what is expected - that is to say, as you do more than what is expected, without crowing about it or "making sure" people notice. If you are working on a project team, make it your goal to do more work than anyone else. If you are expected to turn in a report to your boss, make sure the report goes above and beyond what he could have been expecting.

You can also draw positive attention to yourself by always being at work early, and by always staying late. If you show up just fifteen minutes early and leave just fifteen minutes late every single day, it will not make a big dent in the other areas of your life, and people will surely take notice. Furthermore, you can probably find thirty "wasted" minutes somewhere else in your day! You can draw positive attention your way just by cutting out these thirty wasted minutes and using them for work.

It is not difficult to get ahead in the business world. Do good work - that is all you have to do; good work, and in such a way that the attention it draws your way is positive attention.