To successfully move forward and achieve your goals, you need a career strategy. Mistakes along the way are inevitable, and that’s okay. It is important to recognize and correct them.
Here are possible growth areas you can work on.
1. Lack of connection between career and life goals. For example, a person wants to start a family, write a book, or visit 30 countries. At the same time, without hesitation, he agrees to new offers, promotions, and takes on new tasks. He is successful in his career, but forgets about his dreams.
Check whether your career interferes with your values and needs. First, identify life goals, and then career goals that will support them.
2. Fear of change. From childhood we learn that stability is good. Now the context does not add calm either. It happens that the opinion of others is so important to a person that it stops him from making changes in life.
Be bold and remember: there is no such thing as a good time, you can act now. Enroll in courses and broaden your horizons to boost your confidence and open up new career opportunities.
3. Lack of support. If a person decides to make changes, but his family and loved ones do not support him, this can become a big problem in the long term.
Get a support team and join a professional community. If you feel that there are no people around who support you, create this environment yourself.
4. Lack of flexibility. For example, there is a clear career goal: to enter IT and become a business analyst. The person completed training, tested the market and realized that he wouldn’t be able to get a job quickly, but he could apply for the role of project manager.
Adjusting your strategy for achieving a goal does not mean giving up. If you are flexible, you can enter IT as a project manager, then make a horizontal transition in the same company or through several companies.
5. Ignoring your talents, needs, personal characteristics, motivation. For example, if a person takes on super-ambitious projects over and over again, although he has already burned out in a similar situation in the past. Or he stays in a company that he doesn’t like because it has opportunities for growth.
Be aware of your needs and work on impostor syndrome to protect yourself from burnout. Mentors, mentors or coaches help solve such dilemmas.
To develop in your profession, you need to constantly learn. Often you have to combine training with your main job or other tasks. You can’t do this without external support – loved ones, friends or fellow students.
During the Yandex Practicum courses, no one is left alone with difficulties. Support and advice can always be found in the community of students and alumni, and experienced mentors and reviewers will sort out mistakes, suggest what to improve, and share cases from their practice.
Take a closer look at courses for specialists with experience if you want to grow from junior to middle, change your specialty and start solving more complex problems. Learn new skills and grow in your profession with the support of Yandex practitioners and technologies.