Hindsight is 20/20
Gabriel Fagade, CMRP, MNSE
Maintenance Management || Operations Excellence || Maintenance Advisory || Coaching|| Experienced Engineer || Maintenance Strategy|| Asset Management
As a Maintenance and Operations professional of almost three decades, taking a hindsight on my career path and how my younger self can accelerate will do any young professional out there a lot of good!
Check out the thoughts below and us them in your early career journey.
Know your job.
Find your job description, digest and know it. Now that you know what is required, do all you can to know the job and how to be the best in it.
Build Good Relationship
Relationship building is a key to growth anywhere you find yourself. Develop relationship with your peers so that they can share things with you, with your boss so that they’ll like and support you
Stand Out, Dress Well
Most of us take this for granted and leave it for the fashion conscious folks to steal the show. The truth is that dressing well makes you likable.
Show Up Early, Leave Later
If you’ll grow in career, you must be ready to invest time and efforts. Don’t come to work when everybody come. Get there before they come and stay there a little more!
Be Passionate
Show everyone that you love your job, demonstrate passion for it. Read about your job, share new insights with people in your team and field. Walk tall as a professional
Don’t stay too long in a role.
Offer to move on after you’ve satisfied yourself you’ve known enough in your current role. If they don’t move you, volunteer to do different work, projects or assignments.
Get Mentors Early
Mentors will show you in one year what may take you ten years to discover.
Be Serious About Networking
Networking is one powerful tool that many of us are not aware of not to talk about harnessing its great potentials. The truth remains that without networking, you cannot go very far.
Move to less competitive departments.
If you have found yourself in highly competitive environment, offer to move into less competitive ones. Your growth may be faster in the same company!
Change Company if possible.
Do you have opportunities to change companies in the same industry? Give it a go! Most times, it pushes you up the ladder faster.
Start Investing Early
Don’t forget about the need to continue to grow your net worth as a busy professional. This will make a lot of difference in the long run!
Continue to Learn and Improve
Continuous improvement is always a game changer. Be good at what you do but learn more even outside your areas of expertise.
Step out of the Bubble!
Get into the “industrial white spaces". We all work in bubbles, until you go out of the bubble, you are unknown!
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Love y'all
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1yFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
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1yDon't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure. Roy T. Bennett
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1yDon't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.
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1yExperience is surely the best teacher