THE JOURNEY TO...
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Issue 86 2020
The Journey To Your Career Aspirations Is Equally As Important As Achieving Your Ultimate Career Goal “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius For many people, career means employment. It means the various jobs they may hold during their lifetime.
better jobs elsewhere. However, not everyone wants to climb the company ladder - and why should they?
However, these definitions do not fully capture the meaning of career.
It may be that this is not their objective in life, and they get job satisfaction from other things, such as helping people or being creative.
In a broader, more life-encompassing way, a career can be defined as the sum total of decisions that direct an individual’s educational, social, economic, political, and spiritual endeavours and reflect their unique personality characteristics and basic life values. The idea of a career for many people means moving up a ladder. Each job they do enables them to gain further skills and experience, which in turn also enables them to go for promotions in the same organisation or
So, a career should not just be about ladderclimbing, it should be about finding out whats your passion is, what you are good at and making sure you excel in that area. “Work to become, Elbert Hubbard
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The workplace in the 21st century has become very competitive and a less kind place than it used to be. In some instances, old-fashioned
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