The effect is that it is keeping you stuck and it is not encouraging you to
embrace more of who you are.
Hi,
I'm Grace host of the Career Revisionist Podcast and founder of Mastery Insights
where I help savvy
professionals to build careers of significance and expand that into living a
life of fulfillment.
Good career advice should give you guidelines so that you can take prudent
action and prudent action is action that is wise,
action that is thoughtful and leads to your desired outcomes. Right?
So have you sought career advice from someone and has that advice kept you stuck
and kept you in a job
or in a position that was less desirable or less than fulfilling.
Who you get career advice from is extremely
important and I get that you have to trust them. And usually for most people,
the first people that we think of that we trust are our friends and family.
You see, when you seek career advice from family,
they of course they would be willing to give you advice
and they want to see you succeed and to see you happy.
But the advice that they would give you is around
the context of their relationship with you as a family member and they aren't
trained to educe from you your
values and the things that are important to you and they aren't trained to help
you to make sense of your
knowledge and your skills in relation to the global context and the context of
where you want to be. Comment below.
Have you ever sought career advice and then sought it from someone that you
trusted and
thought it was good advice in the beginning and so you implemented that advice
and later to find out that it was not the best advice for you.
Another reason why career advice could keep you stuck is if that advice doesn't
really take into consideration
your reasons why you do what you do.
If someone's giving you a career advice and they don't get why you're
doing it and they don't get why you have those ambitions because maybe they
themselves were not ambitious,
maybe they themselves did not take risks or the risks that you are willing to
take in your career journey. And they don't have the same values,
then their advice may be keeping you stuck. Because they're going to give
you advice from their perspective.
They're going to give you advice with their lens of what's important and with
their lens of what their values are and as well intentioned as individuals can
be as well intentioned as someone can be when they want to give you advice.
The truth is the fact is that they have their own values and
that they are projecting their values onto you.
So this advice, as well intentioned as it could be,
the effect is that it is keeping you stuck and it is not
encouraging you to embrace more of who you are and to embrace your ambition and
to embrace the
risk taking side of you that you need to be in order to have the things you want
in your career. So what is good career advice?
Good career advice is grounded on pragmatic principles. It is truthful,
it is heart driven and it is meaningful.
The outcomes of good career advice if you are to receive it,
if you are to internalize it and act upon it and implement it,
the outcomes is that there is an alignment between your values and who you are.
It doesn't go against who you are. It doesn't take away from you. You know,
it is in alignment with your ambitions and you are able to set meaningful career
goals in your future.
The outcomes of good career advice is that you feel truthful,
you feel authentic, you feel more of who you are
and that you are empowered. You are motivated to continue along that path.
The outcomes,
another outcome of good career advice is that you have a blueprint.
You have a blueprint that is reliable,
that is a live blueprint that you can change,
that you can modify and that you have the tools and the strategies
and the understanding to be more of who you are and to achieve the things that
you desire in your career path. And good career advice keeps giving back.
It keeps giving back and it pays dividends in the years to come.
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