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I started a new book last night and came across a concept that’s a must consider for anyone early in their career... or at any stage.

Think of building your career by filling your 5 buckets from left to right, place a higher priority on these 2 initially:

1. Knowledge - what you acquire through learning, either at School, Uni or your new job. 
2. Skills (what you can do) - Effectively implementing your knowledge to build both hard skills (technical abilities) and soft skills (like leadership and communication), which is improving your value to the market.

The reason why you should prioritise these 2 buckets early doors, is they will set you up over the long term.

I see too many people in their early careers chase money or promotions before they’re ready, only to be found lacking in skills and knowledge.

Prioritising Network, Resources (i.e salary), or Reputation (i.e promotions/job title) over learning, is like putting the cart before the horse. 

Focus on the foundations, the latter 3 buckets will naturally follow.
(FYI - The book is The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett)