John M. McKee, president of BusinessSuccessCoach.net, gave an interview to Compuware about his suggestions to help IT professionals become more aware of potential career blunders.
McKee is the author of author of Career Wisdom: 101 Proven Strategies to Ensure Workplace Success. I encourage you to take a moment to read the full article with the 10 career-killers, as well as McKee's advice about how to recognize and avoid them.
- Failing to have a life plan
- Not keeping your skills current
- Failing to deliver results
- Confusing efficiency with effectiveness
- Believing that you are irreplaceable
- Knowing all the answers
- Surrounding yourself with "brown-nosers
- Forgetting to give credit to others
- Failing to self-promote
- Losing perspective
Do any of these career-killers hit home with you?
3 comments:
This is very interesting. I'm not an IT pro. Me and computers only use each other :-)However, I find that these ten rules can be applied to just about any career. I'm a fitness pro and I can see fitting these into my career as well. Thanks.
Boy do they hit home! This is great info to pass on. It is interesting to see a tip or suggestion after you have already come face-to-face with it.
However, the beauty of life is that 'Time has a way of healing all wounds' and fixing all that has become broken...
Spin Diva - I imagine that being out of shape is a career killer as well! I appreciate your comment ... you are probably correct that these ideas are not solely for IT professionals...
Johnny - Our hope is that we can learn from others without having to face the 'hard knocks' ourselves. However, often we don't see the light until our own trials and tribulations...
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