Professional success depends on many factors. Even the smallest things are of great importance. It is often the case that the activity itself suits the person, but the conditions in which the person works do not. In order to achieve positive results, certain conditions must be present at work – the very conditions that were the basis for success in your significant experience.

The criterion for any person’s professional success is a subjective concept that can vary depending on individual goals and motivations. It can be defined as achieving one’s professional goals or achieving a high degree of competence and recognition in one’s field of endeavor.

Criteria for professional success may include financial well-being, career advancement, job satisfaction, personal and professional development, professional reputation, etc. These criteria may be different for each individual depending on their values and priorities.

Success is related to the totality of opportunities to manifest one’s personal qualities and strengths and conditions in a particular workplace. By examining the circumstances under which your meaningful experiences were carried out (those where you derived pleasure and satisfaction from the process and from the result), you will be able to determine the optimal conditions for your successful professional realization. Think about what, who should surround you, where and how your work should be organized:

1. Draw up your key criteria for success. For example, define 10 key factors for your professional success. You can see an example of my success criteria here success criteria .
2. Make at least 5 goals that will lead you to success. Organize them by timeframe (1 year, 5 years, 10 years) and by section:
– The skill you want to improve or gain
– Benefit to society from your work
– Professional recognition (from whom, where, in what)
– Environment
– Money (in concrete terms)
3. Analyse whether the key success criteria will help you achieve these goals. How well do the criteria relate to the goals. Are the goals realistic? Are all the success criteria so important that if any criterion is missing, you will already consider yourself unsuccessful?
4. Check whether your current job or activity meets your success criteria.

Understanding your success criteria allows you to make an informed decision when choosing a specific job or final decision after the interview, when changing your activity or if you are just starting your professional path. Express diagnostics Psychodiagnostics and professional development assessment – Business Detox (detoxforbusiness.com) can help you.