If you’ll want to have a stellar career, I mean, work for top companies and hold top roles, one thing you’ll need to do early on in your journey is to ‘clean up’ good.
Let me explain.
How you look and sound is as important as what you know. Don’t let anyone decieve you by telling you that it’s only your brain that matters. That’s a lie. You need to start building the kind of presence and ambience that fits executive spaces.
Start with your accent. Please, work very hard to ditch your accent flaws. Work on your grammar, so you can speak fluently to an extent. As you grow in your career, you’ll give a lot of presentations in front of top execs. Learn how to comfortably speak. Work on your H-factor, your R-factor and your excessive use of unecessary words. Any small thing you’ll say ‘actually’ or ‘basically’. Haaaa.
Then, learn how to dress for the corporate space. You’re looking to build a career, and still you always say ‘you don’t like to wear a tie’. How does that even work? Bro, you’re gonna wear a tie for the next forty years. Lmao.
It’s important to get your own style early on in life. Understand the kind of dressing that works for you, so you can start wearing them and building your confidence as early as possible. Not when you get your dream job, you’ll start experimenting and trying to find out what works. All the while, your confidence is dying out, cos some days, you look like sheet, and your colleague who isn’t as brilliant as you is looking like a Vogue model. That’s why it’s called ‘Power Dressing’. Your dressing is directly related to your confidence level.
Lastly, work on your communication. Get familiar with meeting people. Start from school. You’ll never know this one totally, but it’s always a great idea to start early. Don’t just be an online warrior, and when you’re in a physical gathering, saliva will run dry. lol.
There’s something called Executive Presence. Read about it and start building yours.
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