Caroline Ghosn Quotes

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

I have always tried to market myself.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

Internships are so instrumental, but not only do you need to get them, you need to work at them.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun.

I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

I believe in the power of peer mentorship. When I learned how to ask for a raise, how to fire someone, how to deal with a board challenge - I didn't get that from mentors like Hillary Clinton. I got that from women who were my friends and who had already done the thing that I was doing.

My greatest career mistake is giving interviews.

I spent the first 18 years of my career at AT&T, and it was a wonderful place that kept me moving all the time. I mean, I started off as entry level a position as you can get at AT&T.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.