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Career Development Tip #1

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For a while now, a tester friend has persuaded me to write and share a few tips on career development. I am attempting here to confidently share the factors that helped me in my career, and a tip. Most of us enter the workforce unbeknownst to factors that truly help us build a career or how to develop it. So where did I look for guidance to build a career ? A senior in the training department who was evidently *super confident with their work was what caught my attention as a newcomer to the corporate world. One who was growing year after year in my POV  not by acquiring fancier titles/roles, or  by being friendly with their boss and by doing their boss’s job for the first half then slog 8 more hours to complete their assigned task. But the growth I refer to here and from what I noticed about the trainer was how brilliantly they were showing up at work. *super confident - I understand that others in their own team were envious of the trainer’s confidence and mocked even at any given c
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On gaining perspective.

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In a round of interview, I was asked ‘Why does it say I lead by empathy in your resume?’ My answer simply is I do not know any other way of leading. The examples that I look up to as leaders are Marie Curie who carried radio active elements in her pocket for a greater cause. And Shankar Nag who didn’t wait for someone else to assign him the job of touring other nations to learn about modern transportation systems. And the long answer is: I am empathetic by choice, I opt to lead by empathy. The reasoning behind this though as few others would concur with me is that they were in their own career met with managers who weren’t empathetic. As another interviewer rightly said: I learned  a lot about leading by ‘how not to lead’ examples set. The same is true for several of us, I learned what not to do initially when I was met with managers who would upon a single difference in opinion would become the bane of existence and a constant pain to an otherwise joyful learning experience. As an int
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COMMUNICATE

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ALL is not well. But it CAN be, so COMMUNICATE well.  I have thought about deleting these lines from my earlier blog post quite a few times now.   "It is not the pay, hike, bonus or promotions that keeps one craving for more at work. It is the feeling of utmost ‘safety’ and encouraging environment that allows us all to work happily and together. Make your team feel better today and everyday cause you are so much better than the problematic politics and biases around you. Work is more than language bias and working together without biases is fun. Life goes on without job/career but integrity, making connections that are humane and memories that last for forever this adds meaning to life and living. Else it simply means I am also employed."  But I will not here's why: There are still so many people out there for whom the corporate world's a big burden. Many are still the victims of language or some stupid bias that a person in power conjures up for immediate or long t
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