Chris warns his 25-year-old self to avoid recruitment roles, calling them career dead-ends. He stresses being ruthlessly selective about jobs: pick places where you learn and contribute meaningfully. One bad title or role can derail even brilliant people.
Chris, what's one piece of advice you wish you had known? And if you can go back, you would tell your younger, let's say 25-year-old self? Don't go to recruitment, man. So definitely. Okay. So, so, no, to be honest, I think the most important is you need to be very particular in terms of building your career. Just like picking the places where you can learn the most and you can really bring quite a lot to the table is very important. And I can see like very brilliant people, but they just structured their career in a very odd way. Sometimes it takes just one wrong place and one wrong title and it can all go to the drain. So you need to be very careful in terms of building your career. I've
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