If only every year when your review came up, instead of going through a long and boring process of ‘What was done well’ , ‘What needs improvement’, ‘What do I want in the next year and how will I work on it’ employees were re-interviewed for their position. The slight stress of the interview process, examples of your greatness, dressing for success and being evaluated after.

As a business owner, this sounds like a great idea. You could see between the employee who prepared for their interview who most likely takes their job and position in the company more seriously (’dream’ employee) and those who think they are better then they really are and think the company is wrapped around their fingers (not the best employee).

Overall this would be a bad idea because of the stress interviews generally cause most employees and the unknown future of employment would cause uproar of course with employees and banks. What I am getting to is how important it is for you as a professional to keep yourself in check. The more you keep yourself in check the more you can see the value of who you are and what you bring.

Keep that resume updated always! You never know who might ask for it, when you might need it and it is a great way for you to see what you have done.

Be realistic with where you are in your career. I was the 23 year old professional once it is hard to be taken seriously because no matter what you don’t have that much experience yet. It does not mean you don’t to great work, so concentrate on this being how you push yourself. Experience is an age thing, once you are ok with that others will be too.

Remember the difference between taking a job with a company and working on a contract for a company. A position with a company requires you to be in front of others, so if you don’t know how to do what you said you can for this job it will be harder to pull off. If you are working on a contract with a company it really does not matter if you have done it before, you can say you have and learn because they won’t see how you pull it off, and they don’t really care as long as it is done.

Your worth in business is what you have done, how long you have done it, the breadth of knowledge, the kind of asset you are and the less competition you have in what you the more advantage you have of making more. In this industry everyone is some sort of entrepreneur, so that essentially does not make you any better then another unless you have something else that makes you better.

Every year brings the advantage of you being worth more, keep track of it, keep yourself in check and try something new and challenging  so you can increase your worth in business.