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Beware of Harmful and Outdated Career Advice
I don’t agree with every piece of career-coaching advice I read online… and you know what? That’s ok!
At the end of the day, every person is following their own journey and should be able to find and follow the advice that works for them, their careers, and their goals.
However, I have a problem with opinions presented as absolute truths.
Those, in my experience, tend to do more harm than good.
Especially when coaches share their POV without taking into consideration cultural differences, unconscious biases, and how un-inclusive and inequitable the workplace can be for different communities. Because, as we’ve been discussing for a few weeks, many of the workplace rules we’ve been following were built by the privileged majority… to benefit the privileged majority.
For example, when I — an immigrant Latina cisgender woman — hear, “I should speak up my mind during the meetings and make myself heard,” I know that’s not 100% applicable to me.
Sure, that’s usually sound advice, and it might benefit a lot of other women in the workplace. But do you know what’s also true?
That I might be immediately labeled as the “Fiery Latina” in the room.
