Handbook Of An Awesome Career

Below are listed some of the best career tips that will help you create a successful and awesome career, no matter which industry you belong to or what stage of your career you are at.

1. Attend events happening in your industry as they will give you a new perspective on things, make you learn something new, help you meet new people and allow you to build new networks.
2. Connect with people and build trustworthy relationships with them because your community can help you reach new heights and your professional relationships can reward you new opportunities.
3. Don’t burn bridges because you never know when you want to reach out again to someone. Also, why end things on a bad note, anyway?
4. Don’t be passive in your work. Show enthusiasm so that you are not considered a back-bencher.
5. Think outside the box to whip up creative solutions to problems that seem impossible to crack. If you are a marketing professional or a CEH V11 expert (an ethical hacker, basically), then this seems like something you will have to do on a daily basis, since you will be dealing with selling stuff and cracking into people’s businesses, respectively.
6. Grab opportunities when they knock at your door because luck is hard to find. Surely, hard work has its own role to play but sometimes a stroke of luck is all you need to get your dream job.
7. Leave your mark everywhere you go so that people know you by your work.
8. Personalize every communication and don’t make people feel like you are talking to them through a mass emailer.
9. Maintain a work-life balance because both these arenas are equally important in your life.
10. Reassess your career every few months and see if you are meeting your goals or not.
11. Find a mentor who can help you grow in your career.
12. Ask for feedback because feedback makes you improve yourself and shows that you are dedicated to polishing your craft.
13. Learn new skills as fast as you can, whenever you can. Let’s say, if you are a network defender in cybersecurity, then you can sign up for an ethical hacking course online or a cloud security course.
14. Become someone’s mentor because helping other people is also necessary, plus when you teach, you become a better person yourself.
15. Be inclusive and promote the same in your workplace.
16. Deliver results.
17. Take ownership of your work even if you did something wrong.
18. Take criticism positively because you need an outside perspective to improve yourself.
19. Speak your mind because it is important to voice your opinions at work, in order to be taken seriously.
20. Become a leader.
21. Focus on the big picture
22. Develop good communication skills because that will help you make a great impression and work in your favour in business meetings.
23. Be empathetic.
24. Enjoy what you do.
25. Stay positive at work.
26. Become a problem solver, not a complainer.
27. Don’t engage in office politics because that’s just a waste of your time.
28. Be honest and show integrity.
29. Leave your comfort zone so that you can grow.
30. Be disciplined and always be on time.
31. Never give up.
32. Take initiatives because that’s what good leaders do.
33. Go the extra mile so that you distinguish yourself from the crowd.
34. Welcome new responsibilities because that’s the least expensive way to learn new things.
35. Make first good impressions because they are mostly the last ones.
36. Meet deadlines and honor your commitments.
37. Promote gender equality.
38. Learn from others because it is better than making your own mistakes.
39. Save a part of your salary because you will regret not saving for a rainy day.
40. Dress appropriately and dress for the job you want.
41. Treat everyone nicely and show kindness wherever possible.
42. Think of your organization as your own business because if you do, then you will be valued like a partner.