30 Career Management Tips Owning Your Mistakes

30 Career Management Tips â€" Owning your mistakes This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories This month, I’m providing a career management tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you trigger your own career management activities. Today’s tip: Owning your mistakes. When it comes to scandals, it’s often not the original crime that puts the person in jail: it’s the cover-up. Examples: Richard Nixon covering up Watergate. Scooter Libby covering up Phlame-gate. Martha Stewart covering up stock trades. Business, on the other hand, should be all about making mistakes â€" fail early and often is my motto; it’s gets to learning that much faster. But much of business is not about letting people make mistakes: it’s about blame. For a cubicle warrior, mistakes can be deadly if not handled correctly. But there is hope: owning up to your mistakes by letting your peers and manager know about the mistake early is a strength. Mistakes are tough. They are tough to own up to and tough to correct. Focused career management professionals with strong personal brands know this and go after mistakes just like triumphs. You should too. Actions on how to handle mistakes made at work is explained over at 45 Things by Anita Bruzzese. Take a look â€" and be emotionally mature enough to use her advice the next time you make a mistake at work. […] Owning your mistakes. Just do it. […] Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.