Most of us try to follow a similar path in life, which includes graduating college, getting a job and then going onto to having a successful career. Sounds great doesn’t it? Well it would sound great if that’s the path you want to follow.
As great as it sounds to have a successful career, I believe that many people chase a successful career not knowing exactly what success means to them.
What does a successful career mean to you?
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It’s the New Year. 2009 is now behind us and we are thrust forward into the throes of the unknown that is 2010. I could do the usual and write about New Year’s resolutions that I will be making and…ahem…keeping…but I thought I would rather talk about a great theme that we should focus on for the next New Year. The idea came to me after an in-depth conversation with a great friend!
I was thanking my friend Meghan for passing my CV around her office to a few key managers (because I recently quit my job and relocated back to my hometown of Montreal). And in response to my thanking her, Meghan said the nicest thing; she said that she thought it was the least she could do seeing as someone had helped her get her job and she was just paying it forward. Paying it forward. Yup, that simple gesture of paying forward the kindness you have experienced from others.
For those of you reading this thinking that Meghan is simply a really nice person, well you’re right! But she is also a careerist: driven, persistent and ambitious. And paying it forward is such an important thing for careerists to do, as well. Here’s why: Continue Reading
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