The Millennials’ Guide to Building a Career
Experts predict that by 2020, millennials will make up about 35% of the global workforce, with Gen Z making up another 24%. As our generation take over the workforce, we have to ask ourselves this question — how many of us are truly ready for our careers? More than a decade in school has barely prepared me for a 50-year career. We could practice writing our resumes and role-play our way into interviews, but not much was done to prepare us for the road ahead.
Job satisfaction, career progression and stability, increasing income, opportunities to work abroad — just some of the things that we want for our careers. We know what we want, but do we know what we need to do to get them?
If you are in your first job, I hope you will find this guide helpful and informative.
Build a career around your talent
You may have heard of the advice to “do what you love”. Many young people could consider pursuing careers based on their passions or build a job around their hobbies thinking that it will be easy to go to work knowing that you would be doing something you love.
Generally, that is bad advice. When you add the pressures of growing a startup and achieving results as fast as possible, the joy of pursuing a hobby or a passion can vanish rather quickly. Leave…
