1. Career Advice I Wish Someone Told Me

2. Edward McFarlane VP Learning and Development
HELLO!
Edward McFarlane
VP Learning and Development
Haller Enterprises Inc. PA

4. If you curse, know your audience.

5. Mindset vs Expectation08
You can have anything you want in life just not everything 05
Fairplay is for board games and sports. 06
Life is more about how you respond to things than what happens to you. 03
This too shall pass 04
In god we trust all others bring data 07
If you want better answers, ask better questions. 02
Things are not good or bad they just are 01
The world owes you nothing.

6. Stuff no one tells you adult is not an age thinking sounds simple but…
Once you understand that you and you alone or responsible for where you find yourself you can move on.
thinking
When you get new information form new opinions – or at least double check your existing
sounds simple but…
Make the work the point.
prepare
Get up a little earlier than you should
be on time
5 minutes early is on time.
On time is late.
Late is unforgivable.
life balance
Have goals outside of work

7. Your network determines your net worth.
Invest in yourself
Your network determines your net worth.
Go to conferences about your industry.
Network outside of your company.
Volunteer for industry events
Reputation
Be thoughtful of others - but don’t worry what they think, because people are rarely thinking of you, they are typically thinking of themselves. 😒😒
Generalist or
Specialist
Have many interests but pick a thing and get really, really good at it.

8. 1 thing to do to ACE interviews
Take questions to an interview
What do people that are already successful in this role do?
A year from now how will you decide that I have been successful (what will it look like)
If I am successful here, what can I expect from the company?
If I am here for five years where can I go?
What is your biggest problem

9. Putting it together career stuff Other stuff The real stuff
Solve other people’s problems whenever you can.
Especially for your boss
Write down goals
Put a date on them
Read books about people you admire
(audible or podcasts count)
Say yes to everything early in your career
Volunteer for the things that people don’t/can’t do
Do stuff that makes you uncomfortable
Other stuff
Set a time once a year for your boss and decide to advocate for yourself.
(This is a different time of year than their review)
The real stuff
Decide what is important, what your priciples will be and defend them.

10. BIG CONCEPT Confidence and Ego are different things –
the difference is confidence is based on evidence