Qualifications Aren't Everything
So many of us keep thinking that if we have the experience, we can automatically open all the doors we want, but it doesn’t work like that. Your career success has very little to do with your experience. Focusing solely on your performance, experience, and qualification in your work will not make you successful. If you are not seeing the career success you desire, it’s either because of a lack of clarity, confidence, or strategy. So many of us are not clear on what we want, and this makes it impossible to be confident in our pursuit or create a clear strategy that can get us where we want to be.
You cannot achieve something you are not clear on because if you don’t know what you want, you don’t know what to go after or what it’s going to take to achieve it.
Join the conversation with your host, Alicia Perkins, as she shares why your qualification and all your experiences mean nothing. Your experience does not hold as much weight in your career success as you think it does. Learn how to get clear on your skills, who you want to serve with your skill, and what the job needs to look like for you to be able to have the life that you want.
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During this episode, you will learn about;
[00:00] Introduction to the show
[00:45] Today’s focus: Why Your Qualification Means Nothing
[02:05] Why you should stop focusing on your performance to be successful
[02:43] Three factors that undermine success, clarity, confidence and strategy
[03:23] Getting clear on what you want in your career
[05:50] How confidence holds you back from your career success
[07:38] Being strategic and intentional about what you want and working backward
[09:39] Action and advocating: Working towards what you want and asking for it
[12:28] Being self-aware and holding ourselves accountable
[13:25] Working smart, not harder, soft skills vs. hard skills
[15:24] Surrounding yourself with the right people
[17:46] How to stop giving your power over to other people
[20:27] A quick recap of the show
[21:37] Ending the show and call to action
Notable Quotes

Your career success is dependent on clarity, confidence, and strategy
As you change, the plan that you’ve for your career needs to change
If you are not clear on where you are heading and what it’s that you want out of your career, you won’t see the success that you want.
You’re not going to get to the next level just because you think you deserve it; you can’t feel entitled to something if you’re not doing the work it takes.
We’re so focused on the hard skills that we forget about the soft skills we lack, which are keeping us from the jobs we want.
The more you advance and move up, the less it’s about hard skills and the more it’s about soft skills.
It doesn’t matter how many jobs you have; you can’t run away from you.
The baseline of your career success is your personal development; personal development leads to your professional development, which then leads to career development.

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