You have been quite successful in launching your professional finance career. Looking back connecting the dots you find that certain things worked in your favor when the young crop seeks guidance and advice you are more than eager to share your experiences with them.
Be Yourself
Well, what are the invaluable experiences that you wish to share with the younger lot. One thing that comes to your mind is the first invaluable lesson learnt at the very onset of your career, that is simply being yourself. It goes without saying you know your hard skills well, it is advised you take calculated risks quite early in your career. And most important of all of your professional life lessons is not to make the cardinal mistake of going overboard and over planning your career path.
Well Read, Well Thought
It all starts with the initial interview when you are quite concerned whether you have taken up the right subjects or worked on the best projects. It could very well turn out, what the employer might like the most, is your reading list, as it reveals a lot about you as a person, as to who you really are, whether you happen to be a well read and well-thought person,
Essential Business Skill
This May Seem Out of context and even outlandish to you at that point in time, going forward it would gradually become evident to you that learning early on in your career, as to be able to effectively communicate in a given business environment is indeed an essential business skill.
Professional Success
Your personal reading list is inextricably linked to your business communication skills, be it reading, writing or verbal communications to shape conversations in a manner so as to achieve desired ends, be it arriving at some information or completing some task. Great communication is indeed vital for professional success.
Avoid Over Planning
Working various finance jobs fairly soon in your career you become acquainted with he nitty gritty. The way things work you rarely ever know the nature of the opportunities that are going to be presented to you at a given point in time, also the fact when and where would they manifest and in what manner.
Final Thoughts
It is quite likely that you may miss out on the various opportunities of the unexpected kind that happen to cross your path. over planning is likely to make you overlook on such opportunities as you happen to be too engrossed in your over planned mode and are unable to recognize and seize them at the right place and the right time.
