# 205: 3 Career Mistakes Most Women Make In Their Mid 30s

In today's episode of the 'Career Change Maker' podcast I talk about three career mistakes that most women make in their mid 30s. I talk about the common patterns that come up in making career-related decisions and what strategies can be made to overcome those. 

The reason why I want to focus on this is to help women make better career change strategies and showcase their achievements and results in a better way. 

Episode Highlights:

02.03: The first mistake that I see is that many of us don't have or fail to update our career development strategy. 

 06.07: You can either take the passive approach or you can take the proactive approach. And those that take the proactive approach are typically those who are going to get ahead and that is going to excel. 

07.14: The second mistake that I see is that people are not tracking their metrics. Not aware of your metrics. Not aware of the data that links to the results that you get. So you may be showing up and doing work, but you're not tracking the output. 

15.02: When it comes to your career development, you get to do so much more to move things forward in a way that's a lot easier than it was then for many people before so embrace that and recognise that we have lots of tools at our disposal that can support us with our career development. 

 What you will learn:

• When you are in your 20s, it's all about you establishing yourself for many people. Because you are in a stage of figuring things out in your 20s, you are very much looking externally for violence. When you get into your 30s and you start doing the work and you Start learning and you start developing, you start growing and you start increasing your level of awareness about what goes on in the world. 
• You need to update your career development strategy. If you haven't really thought about what it is, you want to be doing with your career in this next phase and you are still on the same journey that you have been on since your 20s. Then there is an opportunity here for you to really think about where I am going and what do I want to be doing.
• If you haven't been tracking what you have been doing over the year and over the time, whether it's quarterly or whether it's a year you haven't been tracking. When you sit down in the meeting and you need to be able to say what it is you have been doing, it's really hard to recall that. 

 Other episodes you may enjoy:

Episode 199: The Power Of Metrics In Your Career

Episode 204: How To Finally Stop Allowing Imposter Syndrome To Stunt Your Career Growth With Jaz Marfo

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