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Different ways to improve your career.
In a challenging economic climate it is always usefull to know what can you do to improve your career.
Starting a career has a solid base in the educational efforts that you have made during the years.
So it is a good advice to take all your exams, enjoy good grades and learn as much as possible.
Offourse a balance must be stroke between educational efforts and your social activities.
Maybe your fisr job is not the dream job you have been waiting since the education years.
Make a plan and plan your career to get where you want to be. Think of every job you take as a stepping-stone to your next job.
Nothing is more frustating for a manager than to lose time with a candidate that has lied in his resume.
And if you already have a job try and lie as little as possible. Loosing your professional credibility is very dangerous.
Also do not share to much information about your personal life as this is considered to much information and unprofessional. If you work in a chatty department then join the conversation ocassionally so that the coworkers do not tag and resent you.
Be very carefull with personal posts on social media channels.
And you never know who might read them or browse your latest pictures from the "sick leave" that you just had.
Pay attention to your public bashing of fellow employees, the boss or even your competitors.
The results are never positive for you and you could be tagged as a troublemaker or a negativistic person.
Getting drunk at the office party or on a business trip damages your credibility.
The same can be said about a romantic "indiscretion" that your colleagues know about.
You should pay attention to the number of jobs you have changed during your lifetime.
If you are 35 years old and you have already changed 8 or 9 jobs, then expect yourself for some hard time finding a serious employer that would like to invest in you.
You will raise eyebrows as beeing not serious enoungh.
And besides that many companies apply the rule of LIFO. "last in, first out".
If you will have to search for a job, a recommendation from the last working place will be very usefull.
If you were forced to leave and asking your boss for a reference will get you nowhere than try and ask your old colleaques for some references.
The employer will only remember the five minutes that you were there before leaving.
So it is in your own interest not to make a dramatic leave.