Career

No matter where you are in your organisation, you have the ability to change it.

Often things are as they are because they always have been.

So challenge the assumption that they have to be that way.

One way to stand out from your colleagues and advance your career is to find or create some at-work extracurricular opportunities.

Written communication is such an important skill for your career.

Most of us do most of our professional communication on something like Slack or Teams, particularly as we spend more time working remotely. The quality of that communication affects how well you’ll work with others and the relationships you build with them.

Following on from yesterdays note, another almost surprisingly simple way to stand out at work and further your career is to be dependable.

My first promotion, from a graduate level to just above, was completely unexpected. I wasn’t asking for it, nor deliberately working towards it. It just happened.

Welcome to day one of my series of short, actionable tips for your career! And before I really get starting sharing some ideas and advice, I thought I would start with a note on work/life balance.

After mentioning the title of my talk for apidays in Paris was “Data Contracts: The API for Data”, I had a couple of responses saying that data contracts are not APIs, and that they’re for communication and facilitating an agreement between the generators and consumers of data (or something along those lines).

In the Michael Connelly books, Detective Harry Bosch often talks about the importance of momentum when working a case.