18 Common Habits That Can Kill Your Career

Having poor attention to detail

This comes from being lazy and relying too much on spellcheck, among other things. "You could have read a vast amount of literature and integrate a beautiful and effective vocabulary into your work, but if you can't bother to read for grammar errors and typos, it means you don't care enough to submit a proper deliverable. Simple and concise is better than sophisticated and riddled with mistakes," says Patel.