Career Advice: The First Step On Your Path to Professional Success? Treat Everyone With Respect
05.12.2022 - 18:57
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We talk to a lot of important women at Glamour—, , , and the occasional . And while they span the professional spectrum and live all over the world, we’ve found that high-ranking women tend to have one thing in common: They’re truly excited to hold the door open for the women coming up behind them. In our series—part of our coverage—we asked some of those industry leaders to welcome the next generation to the table with their hard-earned life and career advice.
Abby Phillip, CNN’s senior political correspondent and anchor of Inside Politics Sunday, shares hers below.Abby Phillip was barely old enough to drink alcohol the first time she rode on Air Force One—and that’s far from the only remarkable “first” on her personal highlights reel. Her first job? At Politico. (Covering President Barack Obama, hence the Air Force One trip just after her 21st birthday.) The first newspaper she worked at? The Washington Post.
The first debate she moderated as CNN’s senior political correspondent? A 2020 Democratic presidential debate. And her performance there helped her land another impressive first: Being hired as the first Black woman to anchor .Phillip is more than happy to offer advice to the next generation of journalists—she’s signed on to mentor , a political science major and grassroots activist, one of Glamour’s 2022 College Women of the Year—but she doesn’t want anyone to pay too much attention to what she’s doing. “People often ask me, ‘How can I get where you are?’” she says.
“My response to them is, ‘Don’t worry about where I am or where you want to be. You should be worrying about what you’re doing.’”And she suggests doing it all, at least when you’re just starting out. “That sometimes means volunteering to help more
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