More Feedback Than Most Professionals Get in Five Years
One habit changes this: keeping a simple, private record of feedback received. What was said, when, by whom, in what context. Nothing elaborate; a running document is enough.
Two things happen when someone does this consistently.
Technical Skills Get You Hired. Self-Management Determines How Far You Go.
Every incoming class arrives with the same baseline: intelligence, work ethic, technical knowledge. That's what the recruiting process is built to identify, and it does that job well.
It's rarely what separates them a year later.
What we see separating people isn't found on a résumé: