Your Sorting Hat: On future proof skills, past mistakes and uncomfortable choices
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 18, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Imagine yourself 5 years into your future, looking back on today.
Which part of today's job helped you get to where you reached?"
II.
"Grow 3 sets of skills to future proof your income - cognitive, human and digital.
- How well can you learn, reason and solve?
- How well can you deal with others and yourself?
- How well can you work in digital led roles?"
III.
"At work, don't limit yourself to only what is expected from you.
How you choose to spend your time today, decides your new role tomorrow."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Jojo Moyes, bestselling author and screenwriter, offers two perspectives on past mistakes, in her novel and movie - Me Before You :
"Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you...
...I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to."
Source: Book: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
II.
Joe Coulombe, founder of the super successful grocery store chain Trader Joe, shares the secret behind the highest sales per square foot grocer, in his memoir - Becoming Trader Joe : -
"In a lecture at the University of Southern California Business School, I talked about this. A young woman raised her hand: “But how could you afford to pay so much more than your competition?” The answer, of course, is that good people pay by their extra productivity. You can’t afford to have cheap employees...
...Time and again I am asked why no one has successfully replicated Trader Joe’s. The answer is that no one has been willing to pay the wages and benefits, and thereby attract—and keep—the quality of people who work at Trader Joe’s."
Source: Book: Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe
1 Question
What is a difficult decision or uncomfortable choice, that if you make today, will yield tremendous benefits for you within one year from now?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times