Career development can take many forms - from promotion to starting your own businesses. It also includes acquiring new knowledge and skills without having to change your current position or company. If you are on one place for a long time but you are still learning, it's okay. However, if anything new comes, you should think about the reasons. Four reasons of unnecessary stagnation of your career were highlighted ony Recruiter.com.
1. You only do the bare essentials
You strictly follow your job description and consider it unnecessary to do anything more. That is how you prevent yourself from learning and gaining a leadership role. With this approach, you will remain just where you are.
2. You surround yourself by mediocrity
The people we surround ourselves with play a crucial role in our lives. If you are e.g. a member of a team that achieves only average results and doesn't seek to improve, it is easy to lose motivation.
3. You worry about failure
Who does not try anything will not spoil anything. He will, however, will not experience anything either. Unless you are in an environment where failure would be punished too hard, try to make at least one of your dreams come true.
4. You don't want to leave an unsatisfactory job
In every job, a moment comes when it is time to replace one role for another so that you can move forward in your career. You will resist it at first, you will not want to start again elsewhere. One day, however, you realize that you are in a job where you have nowhere to develop.
Try to answer this question: If you are doing a job into which you don't want to invest more time than absolutely necessary, you are surrounded only by average people, you are afraid to make a mistake and you don't have space to further develop your potential, why do you do it?
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