Career Moves You Have To Make

What does it really take to get to the top of your game? We asked seven key power players... and this was their advice

 

- Stevie Martin

Rave all night in Ibiza. Learn a language (you will never use). Date someone with no job/no hope/no soul. We’re all aware of the rites of passage that we’re supposed to pass through on our way to becoming a more ‘rounded’ person, but what about in our career? What moments do we need on our road to being successful? Seven businesswomen explain the milestones that they had to go through in order to boss it.

1 Fuck up hugely

“I once pressed ‘stop’ instead of ‘record’ when I was filming a pivotal scene for a prison documentary I was working on. I tried to style it out, but I was a wreck for the rest of the shoot, because I was worrying so much. Now I respect people who can say, ‘I made this mistake, and here is how I am going to fix it.’” Vari Innes, producer/director of Channel 4’s First Dates

2 Be a lone wolf