People Who Can Help You Level Up Your Career
Everyone wants to level up their career in their life. As many of you may have seen, people try to get additional degrees and take classes which they think are useful for their career success. Indeed, these options are really helpful for their career. But in this article, I want to share you the kinds of people who can effectively support you reach to the top in your career life.
Mentor
A mentor is someone who has broader experiences and knowledge than you do. A mentor can be older than you or maybe younger. Mentor is also someone who show you the way by sharing his/her insights from their experiences. A good mentor guides a mentee about how he or she should respond to the potential challenges and do planning for getting to a better career life. You can find a good mentor at workplace or you can choose someone in your environment, whom you respect, as be a mentor. As for me, my seniors or boss at my workplace are my mentors. Besides, depending on the situation, I also consider certain people in my environment as mentors.
Coach
A coach is different from a mentor and the coach helps you realize your hidden strengths and weaknesses and thereby supporting you from the back to get to the career path you want. Instead of telling you what to do, a coach helps you find out by yourself about what you should do. Coaches guide you how to attain self-awareness and so, once you are coached with them, you’ll get insight about yourself. I used to work along with a coach and that was the best investment I made for my personal development. From then, not only I got so many benefits that are truly invaluable to me but also it helped me find my hidden talents as well as the career path I want. So, that was the best thing I did by investing my time and money on one single thing.
You, Yourself
One of the most important persons to scale up your career growth is you, yourself. Whatever support you get, if you do nothing, you won’t get anything. You should rely on yourself just like the way you rely on others. Because if you want to stand at better position than anyone else, you’ll have to try harder than others. Once you know about yourself and take actions with grit, you’ll definitely reach to the place you want.
In case you’re scaling up your career, all those contributions from others as well as your own efforts are necessary. A combination of Mentor, Coach and Yourself is the key to lead you to the right path in a short time and eventually improve your career position step by step. So find these people who can support you for your career growth.
Laura Cho
