Earlier, I told you about the importance of joining a big player right at the start of your career if you want make it happen in the corporate world.
Well, that's only the tip of the iceberg. There are many more dimensions of the crystal 'Success' and your ultimate achievement depends on understanding the importance of all of them.
One of them is how you manage your Professional Relationship.
Corporates are very vigilant these days and before making an offer to any candidate they would normally go through extensive background checks.
So, even if you are sponsored by an external recruiter, sometime, even before calling you for an interview they would obtain as much information as possible regarding your functional and behavioral performance through every known source from your current and previous organisations.
Several times, during my decade-and-half executive search career, I have noticed that many good candidates who're more than matching the job requirements were sidelined at the last moment just because they failed to pass the referral checks.
It means, some of your current or ex-colleagues, known to the interviewers, must have responded with some negative remarks about you. Those could be valid to some extent, and invalid as well in case you didn't enjoy a good working relationship with them.
Unfortunately, in the corporate circle, lot of people mix-up between professional misunderstanding and personal differences to facilitate their own progress - or abort others' - by hook or by crook.
To be in the safer side, you must maintain a healthy relationship with people from your professional circles and that includes external connections also.
And that's possible, only if you take your job seriously and control your emotional outbursts event at the most provoking situation.
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