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How to build positive relationships with colleagues and superiors
How to navigate office politics without compromising your values
How to handle conflicts and difficult situations in the workplace
Aim for the right job
If you're aiming at the same job as someone with years of experience in the field and more developed skills, you probably won't beat them out for the same gig. Aim strategically and choose opportunities that you know you can excel in.
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Brush Up Your Skills
- Research What's In Demand. Your first stop should be the boards and company websites that post the jobs you're interested in.
- Beef Up Your Resume. Don't neglect the experience you already bring to the table. Soft skills you may hav...
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Get Some Experience
- Use Your Skills for Personal or Pet Projects.
- Intern or Volunteer.
- Freelance or Start a Side Gig.
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Your Future Career Remuneration
Look at the bottom end of the average salaries of the career you are interested in and ask yourself whether you'd be able to survive on that if you got one of those jobs.
Similarly, look around other, similar jobs, and make sure you're not looking at a job title that's middle-career ...
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Shrinking Life Cycle of Jobs
A life cycle of a job is shrinking rapidly, and if you're not re-inventing yourself or pivoting on time, you are rendered out of work sooner than in the past decades.
We need to check our career plan and ask ourselves what skills need to be developed to pursue future opportunities, in this ...
Identifying the right opportunities
- Let those within your organization and your trusted contacts know that you're looking for outside activities relevant to your job or skills.
- Explore your passions and see if groups connected to them have any open positions that will let you learn and develop.
- Seek out frie...
Know What You Want
Would you hire someone to work on your house without a license? Probably not, since it’s hard to know whether they are qualified and have the skills necessary for the job. The same goes for hiring new employees. You need to define what qualifications they should have before you make them an offer...
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