Career Advice - Is Your Career Path Blocked?

If you are aged between 20 and 40 - known as Generation X -. Is a major obstacle standing in your career path, according to Fortune magazine

tags to the journal as "The Gray Ceiling" and goes on to declare that "the younger generation of workers can not get ahead because ... (baby) boomers above them will not give."

"In today's leaner companies, executive jobs are fewer, and the boomers who were hanged on them are in no hurry to leave," says Fortune. In fact, one study found that almost half of them plan to work past 64th

"Senior managers in their 40s and 50s are paranoid about keeping their jobs, so they do everything they can to bring you down," says Generation X ad executive.

How to break "The Gray Ceiling

There are seven steps you can take to break "The Gray Ceiling."

1 Address this issue urgently now. Moving to a new job if you work in a company or industry that does not require a constant infusion of up and coming managers. If you do not admit to abandon their career opportunities will be slow to be, at best, and not in the worst case.

2 Lord of my present job. Expand your knowledge and skills, so they are ready to submit more work.

3 Have a strategic plan for your career, including deadlines. Share your goals with your boss, let them know you are working to promote the

4 Make your boss look good, so it will be promoted, open rungs on the ladder to his career. Solve problems that are giving him fits.

5 Make sure you recognize the achievements of those above you who can advance your career. Promote yourself as a product.

6 Expand your network of contacts within and outside the organization.

7 Push to increase accountability.

"Gray Clouds" is not going away any time soon. Begin to deal with it today.