Advice you wish you had known earlier in your career?
Ismaili Professionals Network (IPN)
Connecting Ismaili Professionals for Building Alliances, Career Advancement, Collaboration and Service.
For this month's blog, we decided to ask the IPN community any advice they wish they had known earlier in their careers. Here are some of their answers:?
Keep up with your colleagues and friends even from your internships and early jobs. Get coffee with them and do catch up lunches. You never know what you may learn from them later on or what opportunities they may present! - Alisha L, Washington, DC
Going to community college isn’t a “bad” choice. Had I taken more pride in being at community college, I believe that the first two years out of high school would have been meaningful rather than living in disappointment. Don’t listen to the standard that is being set for you by others. Create your own standard.?-?Azeem?K, Chicago?
Everyone’s making it up as they go along - they just have more experience doing it than you do right now. Stay with it!?- Parvaiz D, Austin
Networking is important, but it's more important to make genuine connections. - Abdul Wahab B, New York?
We set limits that imprison us; believe you are meant to achieve more than a regular paycheck - Sabeeha C, Nairobi
Always make time to take care of yourself and consider the employer when you're interviewing. You are also interviewing them to see if it's the best fit for you. -Sana M, California?
Service Desk Analyst at NTT Data
2 年Advice I would give my younger self 1.??????Hard work is not enough, work on soft skills as well 2.??????Do not take failing at something so seriously, simply learn from it 3.??????It’s not what you know it’s who you know is a real thing and there is very little you can honestly do about it 4.??????Just because an employer asks for input does not mean they actually want it 5.??????Sometimes a step backwards is two steps forward in the long term. 6.??????Get any promises your employer makes you in writing. 7. Sometimes you will never get the answer to your question
HR Generalist ? HR Innovations ? Talent Acquisition & Engagement ? Personal & Organizational Branding ? Process Automation ? Organizational Development ? Data Analytics & Human Capital Management
2 年An advice that would have changed me a bit more if had found earlier would have been "That nothing will matter at the end just live every moment like it's the last and put all your heart in whatever you do."
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2 年Yes please announce more IT courses. Accounting related.