Cindy Esliger addresses how to examine your career in terms of opportunities and advancement. She has sound advice on how to make yourself more competitive so you can take responsibility for your own career. It’s time to learn how to expand your skill set and work your interpersonal strengths to overcome professional setbacks. Cindy names three main career roadblocks that can stall any career. Derailment, or a change in career momentum; setbacks, where you’re overlooked in a situation; and stagnation, where you’re overlooked or ignored repeatedly. She suggests considering whether we might be unknowingly sabotaging our own careers and advises adding complementary skills to existing strengths to stay on top of professional success. It’s not just the technical proficiency that companies reward, it’s a varied array of skills including the all-important soft skills.Cindy names leadership, communication, innovation, stress management, and interpersonal skills as some of those key soft skills that are fundamental to develop. Specialization is good, but a broad range of competencies is better and opens more doors. Building and maintaining a professional network is also important to success. Cindy details ten things that successful people do not do as a guide for how to expand your skill set. The goal is to build a strong, broad, compelling career for yourself by making your talents and skills impossible to overlook.Resources discussed in this episode:Guide for Expand Your Skill SetAstronomic Audio—Contact Cindy Esliger - Career Confidence Coaching: website | instagram | facebook | linkedin | email  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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