Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua

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I get asked for career advice quite a bit. This is written from my perspective - American citizen from a middle class family, with educated parents with blue collar jobs. I’ll endeavor to add to this as I learn more and get more context. Pay attention to and learn the social signals of the group(s) you want to crack. For example, Silicon Valley values conciseness and a specific brand of nerdiness (a different type of nerd from the classical scientist/academic). Learning these signals is important to getting into the right rooms and not getting immediately labeled as an outsider. Get context for different socioeconomic classes, especially the ones ‘above’ you. Understand the social signals, values, norms. This will also give you better context for how the world works. Dive extremely deeply into one area. Even if you do not end up working in that specific area, building deep context for the facets of one field will help you more quickly calibrate to other fields (by having a better idea

Advice for Early Career - Celine Halioua Celine Halioua Early career advice 2 November 2022 I get asked for career advice quite a bit. This is written from my perspective - American citizen from a middle class family, with educated parents with blue collar jobs. I’ll endeavor to add to this as I learn more and get more context. Pay attention to and learn the social signals of the group(s) you want to crack . For example, Silicon Valley values conciseness and a specific brand of nerdiness (a different type of nerd from the classical scientist/academic). Learning these signals is important to ge

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