How do I get professional advice?

Over the years, I’ve learned that if you want to get awesome advice, you need to use five simple techniques.

1. Skip Your Best Friend—and Ask Your Most Successful Connection, Instead.
2. Ask the (Old) Boss.
3. Find a Mentor.
4. Take Your Parents With a Grain of Salt.
5. Be Open to Tough Love.

Where do you seek career advice?

If you’re unsure who to ask for career advice, there are a few options. If there’s a college or university in your area, you can find a professor or graduate student who can give you career advice. You can also research relevant companies in your community where someone can meet with you.

What to do when you don’t know what to do with your career?

Here are the steps you can take to find a career when you’re unsure of what path you want to follow:

1. Take a career test.
2. Perform your own research.
3. Look at job descriptions.
4. Look for overlap.
5. Spend time in self-reflection.
6. Find a mentor.
7. Make a list of options.
8. Network.

What is the best professional advice you’ve ever received?

30 best pieces of career advice no one ever told you

• Be willing to sacrifice some things to build the career you want.
• Live your life, not someone else’s.
• Follow your effort.
• Don’t settle.
• Be confident, yet humble.
• Embrace failure.
• Use your intuition.
• Be a team player.

What is the best advice I ever received?

When you know better, do better.