‘Nothing in your life gets better until your daily patterns do.’– Andy Core
Hi, my name is Bright. I am the founder of RecruitTheBest Institute, a personal and professional development platform.
RecruitTheBest Institute is about three things: Learning more, growing more, and improving more. We are not perfect. And we never stop learning more, growing more, and improving more. You can do the same. If you like what we are doing here, share with your friends.
Remember, no one succeeds alone. No one can do it all. We learn more when we learn with other people. We grow more when we grow with other people. And we improve more when we work with other people.
If you want to change your life, if you want to change your organization (THE PEOPLE SIDE OF CHANGE), if you want to build a powerful culture, if you want to turn your organization around, let’s do it together. Let’s learn together. Let’s grow together. Let’s improve together. We can achieve greatness when we do it together.
Career growth is a journey. You are not going to get there tomorrow. It takes time.
Don’t compare yourself to your friends. If you are willing to do the work, you will get there.
If you do not know how to start, according to Lukas, ‘ Step back and take the time to find out what makes you tick and what motivates you. These insights on your preferences, strengths, and development opportunities will serve as guiding forces in your career.’
‘Pay attention to the macro environment and trends to set yourself up for success.’
‘Leverage credibility badges to enhance your personal brand.’
‘Distill your broader career objectives into a clear, concise statement. This statement will help you focus your time and energy toward the most important things for you.’
‘Identify the core competencies required for your desired dream role. This will help you prioritize what professional development skills to focus on.’
‘Conduct a gap analysis to assess the difference between your current state and where you need to be in order to accomplish the goals of your vision statement.’
‘When forming your plan to develop your skills, make sure it includes the strategic considerations of prioritization, being forward-looking, and being action-based.’
‘Your resume should be written in a way that packages you and allows prospective employers to have a clear vision of what you are going to bring to their organization and do for them.’
‘When preparing for an interview, focus on these key areas: the company, the role, the questions they are going to ask you, your responses, and the questions you are going to ask them.’
‘Accepting a new job is a major decision. It can be a long-term relationship that can strengthen or hamper your career ascent, so take the time to vet each potential employment opportunity.’
‘The cornerstone to career advancement and professional success is projecting a professional presence consistently.’
‘Understanding your personal tendencies will help you manage your effectiveness and your attitude in the office.’
‘Effectively obtaining information and letting others express themselves is the bedrock of communication and establishing fruitful relationships.’
‘Your ability to influence others is something you will use every day at work, regardless of level. A common misconception is that once you lead teams or departments you can merely dictate what needs to happen.’
‘Your surroundings can serve as a barometer of the lay of the land, provide early warning signs of missteps or contention, identify conflict, and give a general feeling of how things are going.’
Source
Lukas Krause (2018). The Business of You: A Guide to Finding, Managing, and Succeeding in Your Career
You have a lot going well for you. Focus on them. Be grateful for what is going well for you. Do not waste your energy on what went wrong yesterday. Because you cannot fix what went wrong yesterday. Because yesterday is gone. You can never get it back.
Instead of going back, why not focus on what is working for you now, this moment? Why not?
When you focus on what is working for you, you will have more things working well for you. When you focus on what is working, you can do a whole lot for yourself. You can even change those things that are trying to take you down.
Things are not always going to be perfect. Because life is not about being perfect. Life is about appreciation. Life is about celebrating what you have, not about focusing on what is pulling you down.
No matter where you are in your life, remember that you are on a journey. You are not done. Your life is not done. You are still in the game. The game of your life is not over. You still have a chance to make things right. You still have a shot at life.
If you don’t say no to the process, you still have a chance.
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