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Another good reason why education is good for your resume

Time for a reality check. As a manager or an executive, it’s easy to become complacent when we reach a certain level in our careers. Sometimes, you actively decide that you know enough to do your job. Sometimes, it just creeps up on you over the course of years.

Either way, after years of being in management – regardless of whether you’re staying in on company or you’re changing ever two-three years – executives often develop a feeling of invulnerability. Sometimes it’s good, and sometimes it makes you too confident, even careless at times. When it comes to time to change careers, industries, or positions, though, the danger of being too confident in what you do is that you tend to stop learning and reinventing yourself.

And that’s when you start to lose the battle for excellence in your field.

Note that the other people around you – below, beside, AND above you on the ladder – are continuously striving to achieve more. And if you already feel you have achieved enough, and don’t want to upgrade your knowledge, you’re doing a disservice to the other people around, who could also benefit from your knowledge.

Plus, if you’re complacent, some bright new kid might come along and snatch a promotion, an new executive job opportunity, the job you’ve had you’re eye on, right out from under you. You can imagine how much fun that is.

Having achieved much in your career doesn’t mean you get to forego career education. Forget about the career education seminars you had 20 years ago, when you were just a wide-eyed college kid ready to take on the world. Once you’ve been around the block a few times, career education takes on another meaning. Now, it means identifying any gaps and emerging areas in your knowledge base, and turning those weaknesses into strengths.

Staying one step ahead of the competition isn’t just good for business – it’s good for your career, too.

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