With a New Year just around the corner, it’s important to focus on how to grow your career. It’s a good thing to start looking toward the future and mapping out your next steps. Between setting some career goals and thinking about the steps you need to take to get there, you can start moving things toward a place of action.
The Biggest Career Mistakes You Can Make
While good things do come to those who wait, you also have to be a person of action, putting in the hard work to make the changes you’re after come to life. So let’s make this the year you line it all out. You focus on the goals you have in front of you, and you try your best to be your absolute best. And, that means evaluating your current situation. How are you in the workplace? Are you putting your best foot forward? Are you showing the world everything you’re capable of? Let’s take a look at the biggest career mistakes you can make and vow to put those behind to focus on being the best possible version of yourself.
- Coming in unprepared.
- Engaging in gossip and other office antics.
- Assuming that you know everything and that there’s nothing left to learn.
- Skipping out on networking.
- Getting in late on the regular.
- Forgetting the importance of dressing like a pro.
- Skipping out on learning about the industry.
- Bringing your problems to the office.
- Forgetting to say thank you when someone teaches you something or helps you.
- Burning bridges.
- Not giving someone your card when you feel compelled to.
- Sending emails full of spelling and grammatical errors.
- Only doing the minimum instead of going above and beyond.
- Being negative.
- Not understanding that you have to start somewhere.
- Being too afraid to speak up for yourself.
- Making the same mistakes over and over…..rather than learning from them.
- Not finding and working with a mentor.
- Not realizing your worth.
- Being totally and noticeably distracted with personal issues.
- Becoming part of an office clique.
- Not setting goals for yourself.
- Forgetting to bring you’re A-game.
- Not striving to be all that you know you can be.
So, what do you say? Can we leave all these mistakes behind and go into the New Year ready to kick some butt?
