Speaking about career challenges

Arief Hutahaean
1 min readMar 12, 2020
Photo by Brendan Church on Unsplash

Everybody wants to reach point A, B or C in their career journey, be it landing a job or becoming a manager. But, when people get asked whether they need outside professional help to reach that point, they gave a lot of responses. Not sure. Maybe. Yes, but not right now. Yes, but I must trust that person first. Nah, I can use all career advice in the internet.

Some people acknowledge that they have experienced, are experiencing or will experience some sort of challenges in their career journey. However, articulating clearly what those challenges were, are and will be appear to be easier said than done. When they were asked about what particular career challenges they would seek professional help for, they seemed unsure.

Perhaps, that is why people find that the concept having professionals help them in their career is somehow great. But, actually using it, is another thing. More things to figure out in our project for Startup Studio.

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Arief Hutahaean
Arief Hutahaean

Written by Arief Hutahaean

Technology lawyer from Indonesia. LLM from Cornell Tech. All the articles are my personal views.

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I’d like to believe that their doubts about using career consultant service is about the money they’ll spend. These people, who clearly needs professional advice about career, most likely not in the place of their ideals (including money / wage wise). So, why hire someone, when I’m the one who need to be hired?