There is plenty of career advice that is being thrown
around, especially if you are just clearing college, or are about to start your
first job. Not all will be applicable to you, but we believe that a few of them
might be insightful to you, and even worthy to be incorporated into your own
career journey. Here are the nine career tips, as adapted from the Business Insider Magazine.
1. Find your passion.
"Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about".
"Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. ... Forget
about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing
what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.”
2. Be careful who you look up to.
"If you tell me who your heroes are, I'll tell you how you're
gonna turn out. It's really important in life to have the right heroes. I've
been very lucky in that I've probably had a dozen or so major heroes. And none
of
them have ever let me down. You want to hang around with people that are
better than you are. You will move in the direction of the crowd that you
associate with."
3. Learn how to communicate
effectively.
No matter how talented you are, you
will have to communicate your ideas across effectively if you hope to move up
the corporate ladder. The good thing is that even for those that are not good
in written or oral communication, it can still be learnt.
4. Develop healthy habits by studying people.
"Pick the person that has the right habits, that is cheerful,
generous, gives other people credit for what they do. Look at all of the
qualities that you admire in other people ... and say to yourself, 'Which of
those qualities can't I have myself?' Because you determine whether you have
them. And the truth is you can have all of them."
5. Learn how to say "no."
"You won't keep control of your time; unless you can say 'no.' You
can't let other people set your agenda in life."
6. Don't work for someone who won't pay you fairly.
"I do very little negotiation with people. And they do little with me, in terms of it ... if I was a
woman and I thought I was getting paid considerably less than somebody else
that was equal coming in, that would bother me a lot. I probably wouldn't even
want to work there. I mean, [if] somebody's gonna be unfair with you, in
salary, they're probably being unfair with you in a hundred other ways."
7. Become involved with growing businesses.
Though this might prove controversial for some, being in a growing business
gives you tremendous learning opportunities, as you grow together. However, in
the same vein, the management must be clear on how promotions are handled, and
how responsibilities are shared. The deal clincher would be if the company
offers bonuses. Sure, many companies do not provide bonuses or any employee
share ownership schemes, arguing that the salary is enough, but if you look
deep down, you might find one or two employers that offers all these things."
8. Learn everything you can about your industry.
Growing your intellectual prospective will help you critically
solve future problems that may arise.
As famed investor Warren Buffet says, "I knew a lot about what
I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I
could about the subject. "
9. Young women should seek male mentors.
This is an advice from Warren Buffet again, which I think is
debatable if it were to be applied here in Kenya. He says that it's important
for women to have male mentors, because the majority of today's leaders in
the workplace are still men.
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