I recently had the honor of speaking to hundreds of student veterans at the annual Student Veterans of America National Conference in Florida. As happens often, when I introduce the topic of asking for help on the job, questions fly in.
Let’s address a few of those questions here:
“Won’t I be seen as not knowing how to do my job if I ask for help?”
If you’ve been hired or promoted into a job you’re not suited for, it’s possible that asking for help on basic tasks could reveal your lack of qualifications. Let’s say you’re hired to be a project manager in an Agile software environment, and your first day on the job, you have questions about basic Agile software processes. That’s not a good sign.
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