>> So you navigate a federal career by making sure
that you're utilizing the resources that are available to you.
At NASA we have career coaches where they can help to really sit down with you and help you
to figure out where you're trying to go and what it's going to take for you to get there.
So I think, you know, meeting with career coaches, talking to your supervisor.
We ask that people do an individual development plan.
And you sit down with your supervisor and you really start to vision where you would
like to see yourself in three, five, ten years down the line.
And then you partner with your supervisor to help you meet the goals
that you need in order to get to that step.
I think that that is critical, having a partnership with your supervisor.
So often when you're in the federal government and probably in any career,
we often wait for the supervisor to navigate for us.
And it really is incumbent upon us to be our own advocates.
And so we have to figure out what it is that we want,
and then we have to seek those opportunities out.
So that's the biggest piece of advice that I would give,
especially as far as navigating a federal career.