How to Become a Top Performer: Stop Making Money Your Biggest Priority When Job Searching
Top earners have these 3 things in common:
1. Adaptability
2. Love taking on new challenges
3. Lifelong learners
Compensation is important but it’s not one of the things you should look at first. If you want to be a top performer you need work that makes you happy and challenges you to get you to perform at your best. “Earnings come along with performance, not the other way around.”
As you enter into your career, be open to experimenting with many different roles and challenges. See where your natural strengths can take you. Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there, you can always specialize in a field later. But until you gain experience you won’t be able to truthfully say what you enjoy doing the most.
Don’t lock yourself into worrying only about how much money you can make.
As you start or change careers it’s important to ask yourself 2 questions:
1. What do you want to do?
2. Where do you want to do it?
Check out this mindmap from Tech Talent Central to help you get started on your career search!
Focus on balancing compensation with happiness-in-the-workplace. Compensation will always follow that if you are consistent and purposeful of how you’re developing your career!
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There are plenty of programs here in San Antonio that will help you discover the type of work you want to do. Check out a few of the local programs below:
Workforce Development:
Codeup offers 20-week accelerator programs to launch your career as a computer programmer or a data scientist. Start today and create your tomorrow.
University of Incarnate Word – CodeBound A partnership between the University of the Incarnate Word and local software studio Appddiction. Agile Full Stack Software Developer in just 20 Weeks.
San Antonio Startup Week is a multi-day celebration of all things entrepreneurship in our city. Organized entirely by volunteers, the mission of SA Startup Week is to bring the community together through educational panels, actionable workshops, and city-building events.
Geekdom is the Largest Coworking Space in San Antonio. We are a Community of Makers, Creatives, Techies, and Entrepreneurs. Come Join Us.
College Students:
Students + Startups (4 yr college/universities) is a 10-week internship program that includes a stipend and a scholarship, connecting talented undergrad students with local San Antonio startup companies.
Catalyst Labs (Graduate students) In partnership with UTSA Open Cloud Institute, connecting highly-technical graduate students with San Antonio companies who are looking for skills in engineering, cloud computing, and data science.
High School Students:
SA Works is an industry-led coalition assembled to develop a comprehensive human capital strategy to fill the city and county’s most pressing talent needs.
