Monday, September 6, 2010

How to Get Ahead?

The important thing that one has to keep in mind while progressing in one's career is you can always make a role what you want to be. If you want to grow in a role the way is not to go and ask for promotions but to start doing more and say that look I am doing so much why don't you give me the title. There was no title called brand manager at Infosys till I showed up and then once I had this big portfolio in Europe I went and negotiated when we were discussing titles asking them to make me one.

The great thing about it was that the Infosys management gave it.

What does it need to progress in one's career?

If you go to your senior and tell her/him make me this s/he will never do it. Instead if you do that job and go and tell your seniors that I am already doing the job why don't you recognise it, then it might just click. Unless you show how you did things better and differently from last year nobody's going to recognise you. Why should somebody give you promotions?

A lot of people today ask for promotions first and then I will show you what I am worth. The easier way is to show your worth first and then ask for promotions. That's an investment that you have to make. If you build up your role nicely and then if you still don't get what you want then you can at least go to another company and tell them look I was handling this huge portfolio and you might have a better role there.

It doesn't matter whether the company wants to expand your role or not, you should question whether you are doing more and better this year than you did the last year. Otherwise you will just waste yourself

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