Best 11 Career Advices for Young professionals looking to make big in their Career

Best 11 Career Advices for Professionals in 2020

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DUE TO COVID-19 lot of people have lost their job or work and lot of others are trying hard, by working late and long hours or taking risk of going out to work for themselves or for their employer.

Thus, it is very important for you also to plan your work, set some rules in your career to make it more successful, this either you include as rules / advice in your life or do read this on everyday basis to become successful. You may look to develop your own rules and advices also.

Also managing your career is a skill, this can be learned if you practice.

So here through this blog, I will be giving some of the career advices to all the professionals who are reading this article, who are either looking to start of their career after student life or they are just want to advance in their career or bring back their career on track.

Why you should listen my advices, because these advices I have learnt and practice over my 15 years of career working for top multinational companies at different levels within the organization.

So, I will be sharing and discussing in detail about 11 advices, which are as under:-

Advice #1 - Identify your Passion

Advice #2 - Working Hard but in right direction

Advice #3 - Learn to have patience and discipline in your work

Advice #4 - Learn to unlearn and learn new things which you don't know

Advice #5 - Failure and Mistakes are part of journey

Advice #6 - Develop your professional network

Advice #7 - Become a Problem solver

Advice #8 - Develop/Create a dream for yourself along with path to achieve

Advice #9- Don't worry for success

Advice #10 - Avoid Office Politics

Advice #11- Maintain High Integrity and Ethical life - BE IT PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL

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Advice #1 - Identify your Passion

This advice is very useful for young upcoming professionals and students looking to start their career. This career could be by associating with someone or finding your own path or profession or business.

Look what is your interest and how passionate you are about this, can you convert this into your career. If your answer is yes then how strongly you believe in this, if the answer for this is also yes- then go ahead following your passion. This will never make you feel tired in your work.

If you can’t identify your passion then- as Steve Job said – Love what you do and do what you love, because if you don’t then any rational person will give up and not become successful.

Advice #2 - Working Hard but in right direction

Next important advice is working hard, there is no substitute to the hard work. Talent works only for few months, years but hard work runs for long time. Those who are working hard in their career can supersede the most talented also.

Also is just working hard is not correct approach, before you working hard, identify direction taken by you is right direction to achieve your long term / short term goals, then employ all your effort to achieve success.

For instance – Rickshaw Puller works much harder than anyone else, but his success may not be as big as you dream for, so identifying your direction is very important.

Advice #3 - Learn to have patience and discipline in your work

If you are in right direction and employed all your hard work enough to achieve success, then I believe you will get success little early or little late but it will follow.

However if still you are not able to taste success, then the next important thing for you is to learn patience and continue your hard work. Lot of people do not persevere that is another reason for not tasting success.

Also learn to follow a discipline approach in your work.

Advice #4 - Learn to unlearn and learn new things which you don't know

Learn to be flexible in your learning process and learn to unlearn if new things can add value to your work and career. Lot of time I have seen young professionals with 1-3-5 years of experience gets adamant not to change the approach even if new approach is much better.

This could be because of success achieved by them in previous jobs or way they executed the work. However, they should learn to find new ways of doing jobs and be flexible with better approach.

Advice #5 - Failure and Mistakes are part of journey

Failure and Mistakes are part of everyone journey. I do not know any person who have not failed.

In my eye those who have not failed – have never learnt also. There is no successful person –who have never failed, you go and check with any successful professional, sports person, businessmen and they will tell you how they have failed and bounced back to succeed.

It is so because those who take failure as part of their growth journey and learn not to avoid same mistakes become successful.

Advice #6 - Develop your professional network

                                       Network = Net worth

Yes, building your professional network in your career is very important to become successful. Building good and healthy relationship with your colleagues up and down in the level. For this you can become someone, to whom your colleague remember you as very helpful, skilful, energetic, respectful or professional or someone they would they would like to reconnect.

Sometime because of above mentioned skill, or relationship they admire you or trust you or recommend you to better opportunities. Learn to become good human being along with good professional.

Advice #7 - Become a Problem solver

Connecting to advice #6, become someone where your colleague will end up saying – if no one else can do this or solve this – then it’s you only who can solve the problem or provide answer to their problem.

This way you can make a strong brand of your image and people will start recognizing and recommending you as a problem solver and not problem creater.

Advice #8 - Develop/Create a dream for yourself along with path to achieve

If you have a dream then it’s good -if not then create one – do breakdown the steps and path to achieve this success. Also as a matter of fact, it is a good practice to write down your goals somewhere you can read it every day basis and walk the path reducing the number of steps required to reach your goal.

Advice #9- Don't worry for success

Everyone worries for the success, but this worry is good only till you keep this for your motivation and create path to reach there. However don’t let the worry of becoming success or reaching to a level as success control your mind – because if you do so you may get lost in finding the directions of success or choose wrong path to achieve success.

Success will automatically follow you- just FOCUS on your steps taking you towards ultimate goal.

Advice #10 - Avoid Office Politics

As the name sounds negative, doing office politics or becoming part of office politics is also a negative approach. Avoid becoming part of this negative process, i.e. office politics as this may deviate the purpose you are appointed for. In the long run, this can bring negative image to your career also.

Focus on your goals, objectives and work only, build good relationship and refrain negative environment to become successful in your career. This will keep your mind and heart also peaceful.

Advice #11- Maintain High Integrity and Ethical life - BE IT PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL

Last but not the least maintain high integrity and ethical career life. Refrain any step that can bring bad reputation to your personal, and professional image.

Loosing Integrity or ethical life means-you are not being honest in your work or personal life or having weak moral principles.

Don’t spoil your hard work and time because of these unethical behaviours.

Conclusion

So, friends these are some of the advices which one can follow and practice in their career life.

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