TEN SIGNS YOU ARE BRAINWASHED
1. Despite your years of work experience, you still think any company that hires you is doing you a favor
1. Despite your years of work experience, you still think any company that hires you is doing you a favor
2. When a recruiter says “Look, you have to trust me – what did you earn at your last job, and the one before that?” you tell them
3. You are happy to perform all the unpaid consulting work a prospective employer requests. After all, performing unpaid consulting projects is a great way to show how qualified you are!
4. You figure that anyone in a management position must be smarter and more savvy than you are
5. You feel that being a good employee means being reachable 24/7/365, and working as much unpaid overtime as your sleep schedule allows
6. You don’t care much about your pay raise each year. What you care about is getting an Excellent (or at least Above Average) rating from your manager
7. One time at a staff meeting your boss said it might cause tension if you and your coworkers talk about your salaries, so you decided never to do that
8. You haven’t updated your resume in years. Why should you, when you have a job?
9. You believe that “keeping your head down” is a career strategy
10. You feel you don’t need to manage your career, because you have a job.
Surely your employer has a long-term plan for you - right?
Surely your employer has a long-term plan for you - right?
