Tips For Building Your Career Path

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• TIPS FOR BUILDING

YOUR CAREER PATH
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• Every successful career is built on solid career
  planning and preparation beforehand.

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• Chartering a well-defined career path is a must
  to be able to direct your time, effort and money
  towards achieving the right goals and progressing
  towards the right direction.

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• Without a clearly defined path, you will likely
  wander around mindlessly digging into whatever
  books you can read, attending whatever workshops
  you can find online

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• and whatever job positions you are offered which
  ultimately culminate in years of your life spent
  on working for something that does not fully
  satisfy your passion.

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• DETERMINE WHAT CAREER YOU WANT

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• Before building a path, you need to know what
  you're building it for.

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• Making career choices is not the easiest, but
  it's definitely one of the most important life
  decisions you'll be making.

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• Ask yourself what your true passion is

• Is it in finance or business?

• Engineering?

• Web development?

• Writing?

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• Regardless of what you decide on, be sure it's
  something you actually want to do for the long
  run.

Your reasons for pursuing the profession should
go beyond the short-term merits of a good
paycheck or job stability.
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• MAKE IT A REGULAR EVENT

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• Just like how your visits to the eye doctor and
  dentist are an annual event, your career path
  building should also be scheduled for regular
  checkups and adjustments.

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• You don't want to do it too often since most
  career decisions do not materialize over the span
  of a few weeks or even a few months thus
  frequently checking up on your career progress
  will simply lead to inaccurate data and waste of
  resources.

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• Instead, find a day or two within the span of a
  year where you can objectively look at the
  progress you've made, where you should be more
  aggressive and where you should perhaps back off
  a little.

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• BE OPEN TO CHANGES

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• While you've already mapped out a particular
  path that leads to your long-term professional
  goals, don't think of it as a linear trajectory.

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• Instead, be open to new situations and changes
  that happen while you're taking the journey.

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• Be open to taking shortcuts or different roads
  as long as it is congruent to the big picture.

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• For example, if you are looking to be a very
  adept full-stack software developer, you don't
  have to contain your opportunities and activities
  to a linear 4-year software engineering
  curriculum.

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• You can always enroll in intensive boot camps and
  self-study your way to individual concepts that
  mesh together later on.

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• BE OBSERVANT OF WHAT YOU DO OUTSIDE WORK

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• It might seem peculiar to examine activities
  unrelated to your work but, in order to progress
  continuously into your respective industry, you
  will need to manage your time wisely.

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• Activities and hobbies that offer no help in
  terms of knowledge or skill should be forgone
  for more relevant activities.

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• This does not mean you shouldn't have fun but to
  limit your leisurely endeavors to one or two
  hours per week.

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• A large percentage of society spends their
  lifetime not having any clearly defined direction.

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• Be bold and wise enough to use the four tips
  mentioned above in order to avoid commonplace
  mistakes made by the majority of people
  continually updating their career path.

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