Most of us never gets to realize career management is essential during our college years. We are motivated to think of the future by our parents, but most of our friends think otherwise. In fact, career management related topics is a much loved subject on public speaking or debate classes. Who won won't matter then. After all, it was a mere mind brawl and the career choice will always rely on each one.

Some institution offers seminars and lectures on making the sound career choice before or after graduation. Unknown to most, career thinking should have begun in middle school or way before.

What would I be after finishing college? Should I need to take a master or a doctorate to achieve the career I want to have?

What you want to be and to have is a choice. These questions never escaped the minds of the successful career men and women. Individuals who were successful in their career.

Most of these accomplished individuals started on asking friends, seeking advices and suggestions. They researched on the background on the things they want to become and the essential steps of getting in the right track.

Some of us failed to foresee positive result in managing our careers. Most of these factors are the following:

1. Dependence on the existing boss reputation.This may work to your advantage as long as your boss is an asset to the company. However, should he fail you should have a back-up plan.

2. Passive employment. Some employees tend to wait for opportunities to knock, rather them finding the right opportunity.

3. Lack of knowledge and information on what career they would be taking. Every career person has a silent and imaginary SWOT Analysis in their mind. they should be able to see their ideal work, the the essential steps on how to get there.

4. Low self-esteem. Most often, this feeling and composure allow us to miss opportunity. After a failure in the previous employment, we feel sorry for ourselves. This should not be the case. We should be focusing on what we have to learn from it and make resolution on how to improve ourselves for the better.

Any career encounters - fortunate or not, one must push forward. That's the only way you can achieve the career growth you want to have. Consider yourself a "Trainee". With this mindset, you become an absorbent of learning, always ready to invest on training that can hone your skills to achieve the improvement you want to have in your career. And, as an old adage reminds us: Correct practice, correct practice, correct practice. That is the only way you can master your craft. Remember, "Life is what we made it".

If we want our life to be successful someday then we must have to make it right now. This call to action can be accomplished by enhancing our knowledge by reading; attend seminars related to our careers, workshops and anything that has to do with our career.

Therefore, if you are "constantly learning", your career is in progress.