At an advanced stage in your career, your job title may involve the word “senior.” You may be a senior accountant, architect, editor, or engineer, among other roles, but the title signifies your experience and expertise in the field. Rather than being an editorial assistant, you’re a senior editor; instead of being a junior copywriter, you’re the senior copy director.

Aside from extensive knowledge and experience, senior jobs are often managerial roles, even though “manager” may not be included in the title. A senior editor, for example, often oversees an entire publication. Making the final decisions on layout, articles, and images, he or she essentially creates the magazine or newspaper everyone sees on shelves. But rarely is an individual automatically appointed senior editor; in fact, he or she probably started as a reporter or editorial assistant and had a record of success along the way.

All fields have senior jobs, regardless of whether “senior” or “manager” is in the title. Experience and success, regardless of skills, assist with moving an individual into a higher role. Excellent communication, team work, and leadership abilities are also part of being senior staff. If you have advanced skills but can’t lead a team, your work and abilities are appreciated, but upper-level management may pass you up for a promotion, and give the position to a less-skilled but organized and gregarious individual instead.

In many cases, however, senior jobs are management positions. Business, communication, analytical, financial, accounting, and marketing skills are the general requirements for such jobs, in addition to being an expert in the field. Some of these skills are picked up in lower positions; others are part of an educational program. As a Bachelor’s degree has become a general requirement to get into the workforce, a Master’s degree, such as an MBA, gives an individual a concentrated and advanced skills set. An MBA is often a base requirement for many senior jobs.

All companies need a team leader with business savvy, but this individual should also be an expert in the field, and have a record of success. Simply being a reputable business person isn’t enough to succeed in all fields; without knowledge of the skills lower-level workers need and use, those in management measure success only in profits.

Starting in an entry- or mid-level career role is the beginning to a career in management. From the start, however, displaying leadership and team work abilities gets senior-level workers to notice you and, soon enough, promote you. Along the way, these basic skills, in addition to success in your field, brand you as a candidate for a future senior job opening.

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