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Founder & CEO, Early Steps Academy | Harvard MBA | IIT Kharagpur
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How to create an upward trajectory in your career?
It’s true that looking back the dots connect, but should you just nosedive into the dark when you are moving forward? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Over the last several years, I have taken certain intentional steps to plan out how I want my career to look like. What do I look for? Here I am sharing my personal 3 step guide:
1. #career vs. #job 🤷♀️
I have focused on my career, not my job. Over a 40-year career, your jobs, companies, roles and even sectors will change, but it’s the same YOU that’s moving around. Invest in yourself! Focus harder on skills and knowledge that can remain with you, beyond your current company.
e.g. Learning to use a company-specific software is great, but learning how to interpret the data in the software is greater! One helps you at the job, the other helps in your career.
2. #worklifebalance 🐇 🐢
One might tell you that you must just focus on work to grow upwards in your career. That’s an ill-advice. Finding space for what you call “life” in between or in your work is what will lead to eventual success.
Your job should make you happy or give you enough time for things that make you happy. If neither is happening, you will burn out very soon. You might be the star performer in your late twenties, but you will fall behind in your late thirties. Career pans like the “hare and tortoise” story. You need mileage till the last step.
3. #jackofalltrades or Master of one? ♣️
My early interest in taking up tasks beyond my core role helped me tremendously in the later phases of my career and even today, as a founder. I understand sales, marketing, finance, and operations! Do not limit yourself to your role.
One area of expertise will help you grow, but to truly catapult your career, you would need cross-functional knowledge. No CEO will only know Sales and not understand Operations. Early career is a good time to start diversifying your learnings. Befriend and help other teams - easiest and fastest way for YOU to learn more!
In summary, in all my past work, I have kept an eye on the above three:
- Am I building my career or just doing this job well?
- Does this job make me happy or give me enough time to pursue things that make me happy?
- Am I learning beyond my core role?
It’s true that looking back the dots connect, but should you just nosedive into the dark when you are moving forward? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Over the last several years, I have taken certain intentional steps to plan out how I want my career to look like. What do I look for? Here I am sharing my personal 3 step guide:
1. #career vs. #job 🤷♀️
I have focused on my career, not my job. Over a 40-year career, your jobs, companies, roles and even sectors will change, but it’s the same YOU that’s moving around. Invest in yourself! Focus harder on skills and knowledge that can remain with you, beyond your current company.
e.g. Learning to use a company-specific software is great, but learning how to interpret the data in the software is greater! One helps you at the job, the other helps in your career.
2. #worklifebalance 🐇 🐢
One might tell you that you must just focus on work to grow upwards in your career. That’s an ill-advice. Finding space for what you call “life” in between or in your work is what will lead to eventual success.
Your job should make you happy or give you enough time for things that make you happy. If neither is happening, you will burn out very soon. You might be the star performer in your late twenties, but you will fall behind in your late thirties. Career pans like the “hare and tortoise” story. You need mileage till the last step.
3. #jackofalltrades or Master of one? ♣️
My early interest in taking up tasks beyond my core role helped me tremendously in the later phases of my career and even today, as a founder. I understand sales, marketing, finance, and operations! Do not limit yourself to your role.
One area of expertise will help you grow, but to truly catapult your career, you would need cross-functional knowledge. No CEO will only know Sales and not understand Operations. Early career is a good time to start diversifying your learnings. Befriend and help other teams - easiest and fastest way for YOU to learn more!
In summary, in all my past work, I have kept an eye on the above three:
- Am I building my career or just doing this job well?
- Does this job make me happy or give me enough time to pursue things that make me happy?
- Am I learning beyond my core role?
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