Career chats: Lessons learned in the real working world
About this video
Professionals share lessons learned in the working world: rejection is not failure, own your mistakes, lead with kindness because your reputation matters more than your resume, question how things have always been done, and don't let fear of failing make you fail harder.
You'll be able to
- explain several practical lessons professionals learned at work.
- explain why owning mistakes and reputation matter in a career.
- describe how fear of failure can affect performance.
Key words
- rejection
- Being turned down, for example for a job or an idea.
- own your mistakes
- To admit and take responsibility for errors instead of hiding them.
- reputation
- What people generally think and say about you.
- resume
- A document listing your education, work experience and skills.
Transcript
(upbeat music) - Rejection is not failure. And it took me a really long time to learn that.
- Yeah, I had one instance where I didn't notice something. On the very first day, I was on my very first project. Something happened that was wrong and I didn't notice it. And as soon as I did, I brought it up, and ended up saving a whole lot of money that rather than if I had just turned a blind eye, it would've gone, found out later on and a whole lot worse.
So yeah, just own your mistakes basically.
- So I would say the biggest lesson or piece of advice I have is to always lead with kindness and grace. And that's obviously a life lesson. And the reason I say that is because your reputation and how people see you and wanna work with you, are you a nice person?
Do they enjoy working with you? That speaks louder than the accomplishments on your resume. And that's because your professional and your personal life will likely mix a lot more than you think.
- The value you bring to a organization is if you can bring solutions that save money and save time. So the best way to do that is to always question the things that are given to you. And to not assume that the way that has been done is the best way to do it. 'Cause I think if you take that mindset, you will definitely stick out and you will progress further in your career versus other people who perhaps just take the traditional.
- And so the biggest advice and lesson that I got was from my old boss and he was 55 years old, and he was working as my director, and he's just like, "I feel like you are scared of failing. And I feel like because you're scared of failing, you have so much anxiety about failing, that you're gonna fail even harder."
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