How do you measure success in your career ?

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  Set goals that will define what success is. Ensure the goals you set provide clear direction to you and your supervisor on what your performance should look like. Clearly indicate what variables, such as production levels, sales, or new business, spell success. Use the common SMART goals framework to help develop targets to measure your job performance. SMART stands for specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. This means narrow each of your goals so that, by the time you review yourself, you can clearly determine whether you have met the goal. Write your goals so that you can calculate the degree to which you met them. Be sure you are in a position to be able to do the things you say you want to do and peg a time line to each goal, so that success is based not just on accomplishing something but accomplishing it by a certain deadline.

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  Use your job description as a foundation for measuring your performance. Go further than what is written and include the unwritten assumptions about your position. Align your tasks with your department- or company-wide mission. See to it that your day-to-day work furthers that mission. For example, as a communications assistant, your job may be to write press releases, and your company may have a goal to gain more visibility in the media. You could view success as ensuring the placement of the press releases you write with major media outlets. Measure that goal by how many placements you secure, how many readers or viewers got information from the press releases you wrote, and how many took action based on that information.

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    Identify weaknesses and get help. Determine what training and tools you need to meet your goals or to help with some shortcoming or lack of knowledge. Ask for and use them. Incorporate them into your daily work in a tangible way. Calculate what tasks you could not perform or decisions you would not have been able to make had you not received the training or tools.

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    Ask for feedback. Seek out your supervisor's appraisal of your work. This serves a two-fold purpose: You will get regular and honest reviews of your work, and you will make your supervisor remember your accomplishments. Keep in mind that supervisors are human, too, and it is natural they will more easily recall your mistakes and bad habits. Reinforce the positives by asking for an informal assessment at least once a month. Do not forget to ask about those intangibles you also need to measure your success: your fit on the team, attention to detail, and attitude. Also, if your company does not do peer reviews, consider informally asking your closest coworkers to review your performance.

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    Review yourself. Keep track of your accomplishments and tasks, both large and small, on a weekly basis. Compare them to your job description and your stated goals. Determine whether they are moving you toward your goals, and figure out what percentage of your time you are spending on tasks that don't matter to your goals or job description. Commit to reducing that time or finding ways to align more of your work with your goals. Also, have a monthly exercise of writing down what value you brought to your team and your entire organization.

Some output when ever prased by others or feel free to work smoothly, I think I am in success. Supervisor can evalute with specifiq measurment tools just like skill, ability, comunication, behaviour etc.

Am sure that can measured through clients satisfactions,  and colleagues recommendations...

success is life. If u r ambitious to live a life according to u then success is the best option available for u..!!!