... sustain the job-GET ON THE FAST TRACK
Adopt this strategy to ensure a quick ride up the corporate ladder
Have you landed a good first job?
Your elation is justified but, re member, your journey has just begun. Never lose sight of the goal of making a success of your career. Here's how you can approach your job to rise quickly in the organisation.
Where
the firm wins
Don't just learn how to
do your own job. Ask questions, seek out people and learn everything about
how your
company works. Ask everyone, from the janitor to the investor, or find out what they are working on and how they get it done. First, it helps you learn more about the company's view of your role so that you can focus on what's truly important. Second, with your new-found knowledge of how everyone operates, you can make improvements that can help an individual or the firm perform better. Connect with the sales team to get leads from the purchase department, help the admin save time or create an Excel sheet to help your team track tasks better. Your contributions count towards your total output and make you promotable and indispensable.
Get on
the line
Choose line jobs and
projects over staff work. Line jobs
bring in money for the organisation, directly affecting the profit and loss of the firm. Hence, line roles like those in sales, marketing, product, R&D, CXOs or executive managers are considered more critical than administrative or support roles.Where you directly contribute to getting new customers, or creating repeat ones, you help the employer create jobs and pay salaries. If you are in a staff role, use it as a ever to migrate to a line role, where your contributions will be more readily acknowledged, earning you a faster promotion and a bigger pay hike.
The
people story
Your boss, client,
vendor, investor and colleague are
more than their job descriptions.View them not with fear because of the power they wield, but as individuals who want to do a good job. Treat them kindly, spend time in understanding them, and find ways to help them succeed even where it is not part of your defined role. You will build a strong professional network that will watch your back and look for ways to return favours by giving you a leg up in the corporate ladder.
Ignore
the building
Don't pay heed to the
structure or hierarchy.
The most successful people do not climb one step at a time. Firms prefer people who are flexible and have handled diverse challenges. Be ready for opportunities that don't include a promotion within your own team.The quickest path to the top might find you earn a regular promotion and then change from sales to key account management to marketing and then get appointed as a manager in delivery because you have the complete perspective of the customer's needs.
Different routes to scale
the career peak.
STUDENT
Most follow the
schoolroom approach. Work harder
than the rest, submit assignments on time and top the class. It works in a firm with fewer ambitious people. In a competitive environment, the edge comes from `extra-curricular' activities.
OWNER
Some treat the firm's
business as their own, focusing
on increasing productivity and revenue. They have the highest success percentage at CXO levels. At junior levels, you may face isolation and stingy employers may not acknowledge your contribution.
MAFIOSI
There is only one way to
succeed and stay alive in
the Italian Mafia. Find a godfather and stay loyal to his coat-tails. Hitching your career to a successful manager is the work equivalent. It works well till you are loyal and the senior's star is rising.
HERO
The hero loves the stage
and spotlight. His
corporate equivalent seeks the most visible projects and maximum credits. It's often a solitary journey as the rest of the team usually resents it. It can succeed if you are an outsider brought in to clean things up. |
Devashish Chakravarty.ETW14AUG17
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