@kingwhsam 1 #whsamlaptopfortechies
I want to reach out to express my deep passion for the world of technology. Although I'm relatively new to the tech scene, I became completely hooked on it in 2021.
Dear You,
You are not bad at your job. You are just doing things you have never done before.
Every professional you admire has been exactly where you are, learning, making mistakes, asking questions, and figuring things out one day at a time.
Being new doesn’t mean you are not good enough; it simply means you are still learning.
Don’t let inexperience convince you that you don’t belong. Give yourself some grace, keep showing up, keep learning, and trust the process.
You will get there in the end 🤞🏾
One of the biggest career mistakes many young professionals make is confusing movement with progress.
They move from Customer Service Representative to Social Media Manager, then to Facility Manager, then to Product Manager, and perhaps later to Administrative Officer. Eight years later, they have accumulated years of work experience, but very little career capital.
Career capital is built through depth, not just activity. The labor market rewards expertise. Employers are usually looking for people who have spent enough time in a particular function to develop mastery, credibility, and measurable accomplishments.
The challenge with constantly changing career directions is that each move resets the experience clock.
A professional who spends two years in Customer Service, two years in Social Media Management, two years in Facility Management, and two years in Product Management may have eight years of work experience, but they do not have enough depth in any of those disciplines to compete effectively with specialists.
When a company needs someone with three years of Customer Service experience, they fall short.
When a company needs someone with three years of Facility Management experience, they fall short.
When a company needs someone with three years of Product Management experience, they fall short.
Ironically, someone who has spent just three to four years consistently building expertise in one of those functions may be more employable than a person who has worked for eight years across multiple unrelated roles.
This becomes even more painful at the mid career stage. Promotions, leadership opportunities, and higher salaries are often reserved for professionals who have demonstrated sustained competence in a specific area. Employers are more comfortable paying a premium for proven expertise than for generalized exposure.
This is not to say career transitions are wrong. Sometimes changing careers is necessary and beneficial. The problem arises when there is no deliberate direction behind the moves. Random transitions create fragmented experience. Strategic transitions create cumulative experience.
Young professionals should regularly ask themselves a simple question:
“Am I building a career, or am I merely collecting job titles?”
Because there is a significant difference between having eight years of experience and having one year of experience repeated eight times in different places.
In the long run, depth creates value. Expertise creates opportunities. Consistency creates career capital.
Recently, if you don’t call candidates to check their mails for an interview invite, majority will miss interviews.
Please always check your mailbox, spam folder inclusive. Not all recruiters will call you.