Significant Career Lesson From a District Representative at Placer County
Frank, a District Representative at Placer County, emphasizes that a crucial career lesson is that how one treats others is "a direct reflection of how you feel about yourself," drawing an analogy to the airplane safety instruction of securing your own mask first. Ultimately, solving one's "emotional baggage problem" and recognizing that everyone shares the fundamental needs of feeling valued, loved, and safe can take one farther than mere credentials.
Self-Awareness, Interpersonal Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Relationships, Personal Growth
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Frank Udvarhely
District Representative
Placer County
Sacramento State University
Business Management & Admin, Finance
Coaching, Speaking & Writing, Government & Public Sector
Business Strategy
Pell Grant Recipient, Worked 20+ Hours in School, Transfer Student
Video Highlights
1. The importance of self-care and emotional well-being: Taking care of your own emotional state is crucial for effectively helping and interacting with others in any profession.
2. The significance of relationships: Recognize that everything, including career and personal interactions, is a relationship and understanding how you treat yourself directly impacts how you treat others.
3. Character and interpersonal skills matter more than credentials: Demonstrating positive character traits and strong interpersonal skills, like communication and empathy, can be more impactful than qualifications alone.
Transcript
What is one lesson you have learned that has proven significant in your career?
How you make people feel is a direct reflection of how you feel about yourself. If you're having a bad day, it's hard to help others feel good.
On airplanes, they say to put your own mask on before helping someone else. In all the jobs, industries, and even volunteering I've done, what side of the bed you wake up on makes a big difference.
Consider what you carry with you all day, every day. If you don't address emotional baggage and self-sabotaging beliefs, are you truly moving in the direction you want to go?
Bringing these lessons to your career and relationships is important. Everything is a relationship, and how you treat yourself often mirrors how you treat others.
A good indicator is how people treat animals; it often reflects how they treat people. Also, observe how people care for their belongings and their space.
Some people are visual and care about appearances, while others are auditory and focus on communication and word choice. Ultimately, we all have feelings and desire to feel valued, loved, and honored, especially safety and belonging, which are essential to life.
Being aware of these universal needs can get you farther than credentials alone. How you speak in an interview and the character you've demonstrated leading up to it often matters more than what's discussed in the interview. Just like our conversation today, going off-topic can bring us closer as human beings than sticking strictly to a script.
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