Starting a career comes with a lot of challenges. How you deal with these challenges will have a profound impact on the early course of your career. Most often, you will find yourself out of your comfort zone, struggling to make an impact in your early days. But the progress and success you make in early days are certain to propel your career to new heights as time pass. 

Most of you may think that working hard and being a good professional will speed up progress in early days of your career. While another group of you think, the dark arts of pleasing your boss and playing the office politics are essential for your progress. 

However, the truth is, you can accomplish significant success in early days of your career by following these five pieces of advice: 

1.Listen more

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During the early days of your career, you have far more to learn than you can contribute. Make sure you use the opportunities to learn and understand your job responsibility and the overall business and structure of the firm. "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply," said Stephen R. Covey in his book '7 Habits of Highly Effective People'. Remember we have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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