Things to avoid

Once you’ve found a career path that you are interested in, the last thing you want to do is to mess it up. And “messing it up” could be a number of things, from giving a bad impression to current or potential employers, to having a confusing employment history. The important thing to know, though, is that messing up here and there is OKAY. Because when it comes making smart career choices, it’s not about being perfect, but about setting yourself up for long term success.

  • To continue moving forward and growing as a company, you have to have the right people in the right positions. A successful business begins with the ability of a company to locate and hire the best possible person. Your company is a team and as such, if everyone can execute their skills properly and can take advantage of each other, there will be no obstacle to stop them.


  • Well, there are these questions, as you are asked in many job interviews. Again and again. Well over 100 of them can be found here. As a rule, candidates prepare thoroughly for what HR expect in a certain way. The result is highly polished answers that sound just like the phrases in the reference certificate years later. But honestly, that's not really convincing. Therefore - and as a refreshing satire - at this point once brutal, naked and unvarnished answers to typical questions in the application, which may be much more often and much closer to the truth.


  • You are good at the job, perform well, often even better than your colleagues - but hardly anyone seems to notice and the rise remains. One possible problem: you are a professional being low-key. Your own achievements are not mentioned or talked small, you are not pushing in the center and are not looking for the big stage. Unfortunately, in the job, low-key employees are often overlooked and even outdated by mediocre colleagues who stir the drumstick. We explain why being low-key will have a hard time and what the humble ones can do to escape the consequences of being low-key.


  • On the way to working life, there are so many stumbling blocks. This already starts with the fact that the initial situation is not the same for everyone. Children from poorer households are still disadvantaged. However, there are many things that you can do wrong yourself. Especially job starters, but also job changers commit mistakes that can break their neck in the end. So just to make sure this does not happen to you, we have collected the most common stumbling blocks for you ...


Things to avoid

Once you’ve found a career path that you are interested in, the last thing you want to do is to mess it up. And “messing it up” could be a number of things, from giving a bad impression to current or potential employers, to having a confusing employment history. The important thing to know, though, is that messing up here and there is OKAY. Because when it comes making smart career choices, it’s not about being perfect, but about setting yourself up for long term success.