Careers are like an uncharted and treacherous sea to navigate. And if you find your bearing with obsolete maps and conventional wisdom, you may indeed run ashore.
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Probably, you’ll learn them the hard way and too late but, if you are intelligent enough to learn from other people’s mistakes, you may avoid them. So here’s some great career advice from A Life After Layoff.
These are the 6 lessons summarized, but I suggest you watch the whole video.
- An early mistake will haunt you
- Loyal doesn’t pay
- Hard work doesn’t get you promoted
- Self-promotion does
- Niche skills are potentially dangerous
- What have you done for me lately?
