Career Opportunities
Argh, so much for a Sunday post, been in a conference the whole week.
A work friend told me a story that in his first year out into the corporate world, the tech bubble busted and he got laid off. Ever since, he's been a big believer that no one looks after your career except yourself.
This conference last week has made me feel a little bit different to that. As per my post a few weeks back about my project getting canned, I've been operating at a fairly low capacity, and doing mostly support work. I was starting to consider "what next?" and thinking of other possibilities (even outside of the company).
I came down to Charlotte for some other work, and ended up being invited to this global ICT conference. Within this week, I have been promoted to a Project Manager again, and gotten some global work. It was good to get nominated (without any suggestion from me) in front of the bigwigs as the person to do the job.
Perhaps managers do look after their staff, at least in this company.
Perhaps this comes from being able to deliver in previous instances, and past history in the corporate world counts as something.
Perhaps no one else wanted the role!
In any case, it's project time again. 6 weeks to go-live :)
2 comments:
Hi Kev,
Great to hear about the new job.
Since I work for the same company as you, I would have to agree that I think they do look out for you. My current role is exactly like that. I didn't know it came up but someone else nominated me. You get noticed for hard work.
Our company though, is very people friendly (or tries to be) even when the work is hard. It's not popular to be romantic about a company but I think ours is.
As the grad induction video goes "One team one dream!"
Hope you're enjoying your time there!
Hey Jo!
Mate you should have been here in the olden days! I just missed out but I remember allocations to each employee every year for "personal development" for $5K :)
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