Best career advice: ask for feedback

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If you wait for your manager or your company’s review process to give you feedback, it’s almost certainly going to come later than you’d like. There’s a good chance that you’ll have missed out on opportunities to improve and the review you eventually get will bake in the bad habits you could have fixed if only you’d known. This isn’t really surprising. Think about this from your manager’s perspective. Your manager has dozens of urgent issues on their mind, particularly about whether they’re getting things done to show their boss. Their calendar is probably overbooked, and they’re juggling too many responsibilities. If you screw up bad, you’ll hear about it, but if you’re just falling a little short of expectations, they’re probably not going to tell you because they’re avoiding that conflict. If you’re meeting or beating expectations, then you’re not an urgent problem, and so they don’t need to think about how you could be even better. You can break the log jam by asking for feedback.

Best career advice: ask for feedback September 2021 Reading time: 2 minutes The best career advice I ever heard was this: "No one cares more about your career than you!" If you wait for your manager or your company's review process to give you feedback, it's almost certainly going to come later than you'd like. There's a good chance that you'll have missed out on opportunities to improve and the review you eventually get will bake in the bad habits you could have fixed if only you'd known. This isn't really surprising. Think about this from your manager's perspective . Your manager has dozens

Best career advice: ask for feedback

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