5 Mistakes to avoid during the starting of your career(or anytime for that matter)

Ok, I made up that 5 number just to confirm to the standard/popular norm of writing. What makes me give these free suggestions? Well, I have made them at one point in my career and hope someone- at least one person- learns from it.

And of course there are some generalizations and assumptions like people use e-mails as a way of communication, use internet et al.

I have not given too much thought on the priority of these points that I am going to make. But I think the number one is what it is- number one priority.

1. Not being proactive.

Proactive is a most abused word. Every man (or is it man-ager) worth his salt uses the word. I’ll use the definition I learned in 1999 when I first read Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of highly effective people (I know the title is quite a cliché, but even a single chapter of this book is worth a quintal of personality development and self-help books, including those of Anthony Robbins). It means we are responsible for our own lives.

That should explain everything. Let me elaborate. At work, it could mean any or all of the following:

• Doing things without being told
• In a knowledge industry, it means being responsible for your learning and using the same in your job
• Committing without anyone asking and keeping the commitment
• Being driven by values; in this case, the value being “to produce good quality work”, even if the conditions at work are not conductive to do it.

You get the point, right?

The next part will come soon….