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More than half, 56% of workers are looking for a new job or plan to in 2025, according to an October 2024. Survey of Resume Templates of 1,258 full-time American workers. One in three of them plan to leave their current job even if they don’t have another one lined up.
Whatever your career plans for 2025 – whether you’re looking for a new gig, hoping to get a promotion or simply looking to improve your current position – there are steps you can take now to make progress.
Here are three tips from the organizational psychology professor and author of “Likeable Badass” Alison Fragale on how to set yourself up for success in 2025.
Identify your goals
To start, start identifying what you want to accomplish in the new year – or even a few years later.
“We want to wait in the future to a point where it’s a success that we want to have,” says Fragale, adding that it may be that “you’ve created a product, or you’ve started a mentoring program,” for example. Whatever you want to be able to put on your resume or you will be proud of.
So, you want to work backwards from there and come up with some action steps on how to do it. In 2025, those steps will help you make choices when looking at your to-do list, Fragale says. “When all else can’t be done, which of these things will push me further toward those goals?”
Identify “three to five relationships” to help you achieve it
Once you understand what you want to achieve, identify “three to five relationships to help you achieve that goal,” says Fragale. These can be people who have built similar products or who have held the position you want to reach, who you think can help you make that progress.
Then “start thinking about how you can add value to their lives in 2025,” he says. Can you help me with a project I’m working on? Can you make a beneficial introduction? Can you share new research that is relevant to their work? Helping them first can build your relationship into something more substantial that can be reciprocated.
Try to touch base with them twice a year to maintain relationships. That way, if and when they can finally help, you’ve established that connection and have a natural opening to ask.
Get “comfortable talking about your wins”
Finally, be “comfortable talking about your wins,” says Fragale.
That might mean sending an email telling your boss some of the things you achieved this week or that your team accomplished. It could mean having a good way of answering the question “how is work?” in your personal life that highlights one or two things you did well.
If your success happens “behind closed doors,” says Fragale, “nobody knows about it,” and you can’t reap the benefits.
Simply by knowing how to show his victories, Fragale met “some of the people who have become more meaningful to me professionally” in places like “an airport bar, my son’s birthday party.”
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