Your Sorting Hat: On trust vs a resume, feeling of failure and failing strategies
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 30, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A resume gets you a good interview shortlist only 10% of the time.
90% of the good interview shortlists will come from your network of trust."
II.
"Work on your strengths and not on your weakness, unless it is a behaviour issue.
What makes you unique and outstanding, makes you valuable and successful."
III.
"Your survival instinct makes you seek what is comfortable.
Your need for growth makes you seek what is uncomfortable.
Survival or Growth? Choose."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Michelle Obama, attorney, author and former First Lady of the United States, in her book - Becoming, has a perspective on failure that has multiple interpretations :
"Failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result."
Source: Book: Becoming by Michelle Obama
II.
James Clear, author of the no 1 New York Times bestseller - Atomic Habits, talks about how your actions add up over time to create the new You :
"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity."
Source: Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
1 Question
Are you winning at work? If not, then are you using strategies that worked in the past but have outlived their usefulness?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times