Career Counseling Quotes

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited--long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms--what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next thirty years, what difference does going "back" four years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.”
― Alex Malley, The Naked CEO: The Truth You Need to Build a Big Life

“In the present day corporate world, it is utmost important to build a personal brand for yourself and anyone who knows the basics of brand-building would know that it is impossible without proper self promotion!”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“The job you seek isn't out there in some job description, it's already inside you, aching to get out.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“The focus should be on becoming a strong and
influential personality – cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Only focusing on what you love is a bad priority, and thinking you even know what that is and that nothing will change is a bad assumption. Eventually, you’ll hate your job, or it will disappear, or it won’t challenge you anymore, or a million other things! Following your dream job usually leads to being stuck in a miserable career, and with it, you sacrifice your health, family, and identity.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“In order to create your future, you have to reconcile your past.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Use affirmations as statements of becoming, not statements of being.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Hiding or lying about your age is giving in to ageism. Don't do it! Be proud of who you are, what you know and what you've accomplished.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Chase career relationships, not job postings.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Getting fired is not shameful. It just means you need to find a better fit.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“You hear a lot about "digital natives." Well, baby boomers are the "digital founders.”
― John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50

“Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their hard work, are the ones who advance to positions of greater power and responsibility.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“But ultimately, all this work to become indispensable comes back to you. Indispensable employees know that the workplace is simply an arena for their own development as people. They measure their worth not by how indispensable their organizations judge them to be but by how fully they live out the full potential of who they truly are.”
― Meredith Whipple Callahan, Indispensable: How to Succeed at Your First Job and Beyond

“Nobody is, was, will be born smart. But for you to be smart, and act smart, you need to think smart always. It is not a subject of your alma mater, it is the side and fries of what the genius within can comprehend, comply and captivate. In every beginning has a twelve kick start, promotion of the relativity of your new thinking, the story of a bunch of math and the spirit of a wonder apple.”
― Prince Akwarandu

“Practice empathy rather than sympathy.”
― John Tarnoff

“Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere. Right information matters the most. This applies to your work place too.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate; life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer; life is toughest
when you have a perfectionist supervisor!”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Working for someone is helping them build their dreams. Work anyway for there is profit in labor.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“No career counselor or internship will be able to help you with your career if you don't have an aim, purpose, and passion for what you want to do in life.”
― Germany Kent

“Resumes are dead.”
― Richie Norton

“Strive to be a well-versed professional with high esthetic standards and a passion for excellence.”
― Germany Kent

“Career comes career goes, but character is forever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“The Goal is the ending of the Process.
The Process is the beginning of Goal.

Attention is the ending of the Aware.
Aware is the beginning of Attention.

Pleasantness is the ending of Discomfort.
Discomfort is the beginning of Pleasantness.

Earning is the ending of learning.
Learning is the beginning of Earning.

Swapping this will become the ending of your career.
Following this will become the beginning of your career.”
― Srikanth Mahankali

“Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.”
― Jose A. Aviles, Peer Mentorship in High School: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing a Successful Peer Mentorship Program in Your School