The 6 Big Career Mistakes

Everyone dreams of having a great career but not many achieve. There are some fundamental facts that everybody should know about their career. Seems like small misstep can make you step into big career traps. These are the six career traps which I did like to mention and which you should not get into:

1) Having no plan: - This may lead to confusion. Failure is inevitable. It may derail your career. Plan out what you want to achieve. Have a balanced work-family life. Sometimes you need to have a backup plan also.

2) Lacking expectations: Meet up with different people, your supervisor and discuss what is expected of you. Lacking expectations can be the biggest career trap. If you are not told abut your duties and your position parameters, keep asking questions until you know what's expected of you.

3) Being a loner: The magic rule of a good career growth is relationships, or in other words, networking. Some people focus so hard on the job that they never get to interact with people in the other parts of the organization. If at all they interact, it may not be under friendly circumstances. Winning friends throughout the organization adds to additional benefits.

4) Taking indefinite decisions: - People who take tough decisions naturally stand out. People who take decisions indefinitely or uncertainly stand out for the wrong reasons. When you have a decision to make, focus on what might be an emergency. Frame out the job which is declared urgent and focus on the emergency.

5) Focusing too narrowly: - Make sure to develop a wide variety of applicable skills. With the developed new skills you can better market yourself so that an employer finds you or you can become one. Developing new skills can be like job insurance.

6) Covering up: - When you commit a mistake, the best thing is to take responsibility to fix it and not running away from it. Be honest to others about it and do not cover it up.

When you find yourself in a career trap, it may not be important how you fell in, but how you got out of it.

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By Kishor V R