Career Advice Quotes

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your ‘work style’ the best.

Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.

In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.

Auliq-Ice

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

J.B

Get into Investment Banking

ibhacker

Your career is your business.

Auliq-Ice

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

Miles Anthony Smith

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

Miles Anthony Smith

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

Miles Anthony Smith

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Miles Anthony Smith

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

Miles Anthony Smith

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

Miles Anthony Smith

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

Miles Anthony Smith

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

Miles Anthony Smith

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

Miles Anthony Smith

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

Miles Anthony Smith

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Miles Anthony Smith

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

Miles Anthony Smith

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Miles Anthony Smith

Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Miles Anthony Smith

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

Miles Anthony Smith

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Auliq-Ice

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

Idowu Koyenikan

Job change is a very crucial decision. This decision can make or break your career.

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

Matthew T. Cross

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

Auliq-Ice

The goal is to create a “chit,” or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review.

Itis our ability to have an insight into people thatgives us the power to predict the future.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.

Make sure the job you select complements your personal life the best.

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

Lukasz Laniecki

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

Lukasz Laniecki

Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.

If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.

Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential.

Matthew T. Cross

Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process..

They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.

Lukasz Laniecki

Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere. Right information matters the most. This applies to your work place too.

Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.

In the present day corporate world, it is utmost important to build a personal brand for yourself and anyone who knows the basics of brand-building would know that it is impossible without proper self promotion!

Move out of your comfort zone, develop those necessary skills and go all out for that much needed advancement!

Use social events, social networks and every get-together at work to build a stronger brand YOU!

Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.

Put time and effort to promote your personal brand.

Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their hard work, are the ones who advance to positions of greater power and responsibility.

The focus should be on becoming a strong andinfluential personality – cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

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