What are the most important skills for building a career, regardless what role you have or what stage you are in your career?
Below is an overview of my point of view — starting with basics (salary negotiation), followed by concepts that will shape how you build your career (your career’s a web, not a ladder), then key stages in the process of getting and succeeding in your job.
I’ve marked the best and most important skills with a🏅, and included a lot of ideas I’m working on as “coming soon” — if you’d like me to focus on a particular one(or have another question), let me know in this survey.
Basic career skills & big decisions
- 🏅Simple salary negotiation checklist
- 🏅Whether to do an MBA
- 🏅How to find a great career coach
- Salary negotiation guide
- Killer LinkedIn profile
- When to quit your job
Essential career concepts
- Preparing an inevitable career narrative: your whole life led to this
- 🏅Credibility
- Concept: role adjacency
- Concept: Skill transparency
- How to win the game of low expectations
- Bad career advice to be wary of
Networking skills
- 🏅Networking with informational interviews
- How to network and get a job at a career fair
- How to make people feel good about helping / mentoring you
- Harnessing your story
- How to network and learn if you have a non-traditional background
- Networking for introverts: find a cause
- Asking for intros
- The complete guide to finding, engaging and managing career mentors
Applying for the job
- 🏅Cold emailing for an internship or job
- 🏅How to prepare for an interview
- How to get an internship after graduation
- Questions to ask in a job interview
- Questions to ask in a startup interview
- How to write a cold email (or LinkedIn message)
- How to get any job
- Where to apply
- 🏅How to answer “Tell me about yourself”
- 🏅How to answer “Sell me this pen”
- Guide to ace informal interviews
- How to decline an offer or interview
- How to reschedule an interview
- How to put DnD (or any hobby) on your resume
Choosing where to work
- Questions to ask in a job interview
- How to tell if a startup is going to succeed before taking the job (and impress the hell out of whoever’s hiring you)
Doing the work
- How to manage your boss
- Office politics intro
- How to say no at work
Leaving your job
- Deciding when to quit your job
- How to quit your job
- How to leave a job you just started
- How long to stay at your first job
Other great career resources
- https://www.thestartupofyou.com/