The best advice to build your dream career
[ad_1]
It can be difficult to define your dream career, let alone pursue it — the path can be fraught with risks and self-doubt.
Ask! Glow RecipeChristine Chang, Sarah Lee and Sarah Lee were the co-CEOs. The pair quit their jobs as global marketing executives at L’Oréal in 2014 to pursue an even bigger dream: launching their own skin-care brand inspired by their Korean heritage and K-beauty trends.
Chang and Lee pooled $50,000 of savings and started Glow Recipe as a 2-woman operation. They eventually had the funds to hire additional employees. Even though it meant working late to pack shipments or test products, Glow Recipe taught the couple valuable lessons on how to build a business and a career.
Glow Recipe has become one of the most popular brands in skin care. It closed out 2021 with an estimate $100 million in sales.
Chang and Lee sat with CNBC Make It and shared their best advice for how to land — and win at — your dream job.
“Think two- or three steps ahead”
Lee suggests that it’s easy for us to become distracted by the day-to-day grind of work, but we should have clear goals no matter our career stage.
A human resources director at L’Oréal Paris gave Lee this advice at the start of her career, and it’s stuck with her ever since: “Always think two or three steps ahead, not just your immediate next step.”
When you are clear about your vision, begin mapping the steps you need to take to reach it.
Lee suggests that you have a single vision and then work toward it. You can break down your vision into manageable steps and plan how you’ll get there.
“Never attempt it on your own”
Chang knows the value of having a supportive network when chasing your dreams. Hers also includes Lee, and an intimate group of co-founders for start-ups that the pair have met along their path.
Chang is a self-described “very independent” woman who has sometimes found it difficult to seek help. However, she soon learned how important it was to have supportive mentors and colleagues after she launched Glow Recipe.
Her words: “To be able share your ideas and win-wins as well honest discussions about running a business was an amazing source of mental support.” “It’s okay to ask for help … never do it alone!”
To follow Chang’s advice, reach out to people who have embarked on a similar path as yours, or have your dream job, and ask for their professional insight and advice on your unique situation.
She says, “You need to always think about how you can build a network of people who can support and help you.”
Take a look at:
How Glow Recipe’s co-CEOs turned their friendship and $50,000 into a $100-million business
At 25, SuChin Pak became MTV’s first Asian American news correspondent—here’s her best career advice
The reasons for the $3.2 trillion gender investing gap, and how to bridge it
Register now Get smarter about your money and career with our weekly newsletter
[ad_2]