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Have a list of the projects you worked on with measurable benefits to the company. Start by talking to your manager and then work your way up your reporting st
by DamnYuppie 5y ago
Have a list of the projects you worked on with measurable benefits to the company.
Start by talking to your manager and then work your way up your reporting structure talking to the directors/cto/ceo's. If they don't know you you need to walk in an introduce yourself, don't drop all your accomplishments on them at once but something I have used many times in the past is just "Hi I am X I work/ed/ing in/on Y, loved helping get project Y over the line and am excited to see its impact on Z. What are your hopes/thoughts on where it will lead us"? Offer to take them out to lunch and get to know them better, you don't even have to talk about work with them, developing connections is personal not business!!
Outside of that when talking to stakeholders the key is to be invested in the business outcomes of what you are building and talk to leadership on their terms. They give zero sh*t's about your technology or methodologies, they care about impact on revenue and cost.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI could do all this regularly or send out resumes/answer recruiters every year or two? No wonder tenure is so low.
- ryandrake 5y agoEverywhere I've worked, it's an order of magnitude easier to get a L+1 job at another company than it is to get promoted to L+1. Until and unless that's fixed, expect tenure to remain low. The fact that no company fixes this tells me this is employers' desired end state.
- MattGaiser 5y agoYep. Even with the Great Resignation in full swing, companies don't seem to care about the losses other than whining about it. As far as they are concerned, we are replaceable commodity cogs. So we should act like commodity sellers.