Career Development Confusion? Listen to this!
The first steps in your career can often be the most difficult and confusing. This is part of the reason Forward was created – for young PR professionals to help each other move forward.
Luckily for us young PR pros, David Maister has just started a series of podcasts on career development. Maister is a former Harvard Business School professor and is one of the world’s leading business thinkers. In other words: Big Time!
Here’s the blurb from his latest ‘Business Masterclass’ in Career Development:
Careers, like all living things, evolve in response to opportunities and challenges. The Business Masterclass Career Development series explores the secrets of a successful and satisfying career: the willingness to adapt, respond and maintain the enthusiasm to keep trying.
And to give you a taste of the podcast, I’ll quote Maister from his most recent episode – Are you having fun yet?
Energy, ambition, drive and enthusiasm. So scarce are these qualities today that they are the dominant competitive advantage for both individual and organizations. Enthusiasm and involvement are the keys. The point of life is to be happy – all other goals: money, fame, status, responsibility, achievement are merely ways of making you happy. They’re worthless in themselves. If you’re not enjoying your work – then do something about it.
The series is three episodes in, and it’s well worth your while to have a listen to the episodes already posted and subscribe to the rest of the series. This is yet another example of social media allowing young people to learn from the best thinkers out there – for free!
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