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mojatu.com | Nottingham connected 8 work based habits to kill if you want to advance your career Failure to learn new technology: By resisting new ways of doing things will leave you behind. Keeping pace with the changes in technological developments will help you to gain better opportunities in career development and earning better income. Lying: If you are caught up in lie, your credibility will be destroyed. The worst thing is that gaining such lost credibility is extremely difficult because no matter how honest you are in future, you will often be remembered as the “person who lied”. Being defensive: What are your reactions to disapproving feedback on your performance from your manager or colleagues? If it is always defensive, you should not be surprised that your career has stagnated. Such reactions make people to give up on having meaningful interactions with defensive people. Your colleagues and managers will avoid you, stop telling you how you can improve and your relationships at work will be destroyed since no one will want to work with you or share information with you. Disorganisation: Being organised increases your reputation at work, with colleagues and your contemporaries. By having organised working space, paying attention to details, doing what you promise to do when you promise to do it shows mojatu how organised you are. By building a reputation as someone reliable and someone people can have confidence in helps. If you are disorganised, people will often conclude that you cannot be trusted or counted on to keep your word. Failure to promote your own work: Failing to promote your work prevents others knowing about your good work. This will lead to failure of recognition, poor reputation, low salary and limitation of prospects of your career advancement. Make sure that your managers are aware of your achievements that go beyond your normal work. Being too negative: By constantly complaining about your organisations policies, practices and progress and how unpleasant your bosses, colleagues and operations are you are probably digging your career into a hole. Creating an unpleasant environment for people around you and to work in will not just hurt your friends but also your career. Having a reputation a bitter person or the one with bad attitude will not go very well with your career. Taking rash decisions: Avoid impulsive decisions at work and in your career life if you want it to progress. Whether it is taking up a new job without considering its implications or it is walking away from a job in haste, impulsive decision- making has no place in your career. The decisions you make about work will often have far-reaching ramifications on your daily life, reputation and wallet. Being unassertive: You might think that not making waves is the best way to succeed professionally, but. By not being assertive about decisions or actions you believe are wrong, or that will lead your organisation to disaster will lead to career failure. Not speaking up on things you believe in, including asking for a raise, will hurt your career progression. Voicing your opinion should be done professionally to ensure you gain audience and lead to the impact you wish to create. There is a big difference between being assertive and being obnoxiously pushy! Vacancies! Internships! As a social enterprise, we look are committed to helping individuals, students and graduates to gain work based skills necessary for career development. We know how difficult it is for graduates to break into most career sectors without relevant work experience. Internship opportunities: Employment positions: 1. Accounts/bookkeeper 2. Database management 3. Website developer 4. Graphic designer 5. Writers 1. PhP developer (MySQL skills a MUST) 2. Sales and marketing (Commission based) T: 01159738001 M: 07516962992 Email: [email protected] 26