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Are you looking for ways to boost your productivity and maintain a work-life balance?
Career Coaches and Instagram Influencers who are more than just a fad, who thrives on delivering genuine value to their followers through actionable advice and insightful content. These career influencers are worth following because they agree that life is not all sunshine and rainbows.
From career advice to personal development goals, rest assured that the below list of advice has a little bit of everything for everyone.
A much-needed ‘Productivity Boost’
Do you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list and struggle to stay focused during your daily tasks because of anxiety? We only feel relaxed once we check all the boxes to green on that list by the end of the day, but still couldn’t feel productive because we spend more than usual time.
Shadé Zahrai is an award-winning ‘Peak Performance Educator to Fortune 500s’ and a career coach and influencer. Her videos are well-researched and thought-provoking, and her advice about career, productivity, feedback guide, and how to manage distractions are some of our favorites.
Career gaps shouldn’t matter, it’s the work that speaks
Millennials and Gen Z are fighting the wrong career notions, that were previously considered as career guides. They believe in the fact that ‘your work speaks for you’, whether it is about 4 days a week, usual working hours, or remote work norms they stick to the performance standards and quality of work they do and fight the traditional ways.
Madeline Mann, a digital content creator and career influencer, believes in breaking the old notions by speaking on topics like why career gaps shouldn’t matter, why you need a different story and not a new resume, etc.
Confidence is the key
Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. Confidence tends to stir a whole world inside you and brings positivity and strength to find success in every form.
Therapist, Influencer & Career Coach, Lara says if you are struggling with low self-confidence that means you don’t trust your thought process and you will keep questioning your decision-making. According to her, your confidence is directly proportional to a lack of decisiveness and you need to work on that to grow in your career.
Success doesn’t require a degree
People say ‘A degree is the key to success’ in the professional world. We have heard and followed that too. But the career coaches and influencers of the millennial generation are challenging the notion of associating a degree with the success of an individual.
Hashba Hamza is a career coach and cheerleader, who believes that “Success is all about determination, passion, and carving your own path. It has nothing to do with a piece of paper.”
Trust your intuitions for red flags in the workplace
That’s right, you need to trust your intuition because your instincts never lie. When looking for a perfect job, or a perfect work environment there are always factors you need to keep in mind before giving a longtime commitment.
Rutvi Bhatt is a career coach and influencer, who advises checking for five signs of red flags when considering a company and its work culture. Working for multinationals and startups for a lot of many years, Rutvi speaks from experience with all kinds of leaders in such organizations.
Don’t start a job search without a support system
We tend to start our job searching without proper tools to support our learning process and end up being stuck in the job hunting phase. The most important goal in your life should be to keep improving and learning and for that reason, you need some support system that does some work at the backend.
Coach Bose’ is a life and career coach, an influencer talking about having a support system in terms of tools (as a job seeker) that you didn’t know existed. Check her full video on YouTube.
Recharge, Recover & Come back
We repeatedly talk about unwinding after a busy day and its importance in your personal and professional life. Well, our career coach, Mehar Sindhu Batra thinks that too. According to her, “Hustle Culture has left us feeling if we aren’t productive, we are wasting time.”
This behavior isn’t sustainable for your health and you need to unwind, rest, recover, and come back stronger and more productive.
Power of small talk
Are you the kind of person who hates small talk and networking makes you anxious? Then you would have repeatedly received this advice over a period of time to come out of your comfort zone and be an extrovert at the workplace to excel.
Check this podcast on Small Talks & Networking for Introverts by ‘The Straight Shooter Recruiter’ to help you level up your game in your own style.
Using the power platform, LinkedIn to the fullest
Leverage social media platforms to boost your career growth and keep learning in the process. Emily Liou, a certified career coach advises you to use LinkedIn to help you with your career in the most unexpected way, claiming that it is the most underrated platform on social media.
When you feel stuck in a career loop
It’s ok to get stuck in your career, we all have faced that at some point but coming out of the loop is something of much more significance. Don’t get into the entitlement loop of self-pity and low self-esteem, just find your way back and you are good to go.
Sho Dewan is a digital creator and career influencer, who advises you to lean into your natural interests, strengths, and hobbies believing that your ideal career lies somewhere in that mix.
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