HeyJaredEngineers Deserve Promotion
How to actually get the recognition and promotion that you deserve as an engineer.
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The promotion skill almost nobody teaches but almost everyone judges you on (opens the original)
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Dear Future Leaders,Does this sound familiar:You’ve done the work. You’ve delivered the results. You’ve proven your technical skills over and over.But when it comes time for the promotion conversation, your name doesn’t come up?If so, here's one reason why that might happen.It’s not your ideas. It’s not your code. And it’s not your work ethic.Instead, it’s probably how you speak in the room when it matters.You see, I grew up shy. I wasn’t the person starting conversations at the gas stat
The underrated credibility move most engineers never make (opens the original)
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Dear Future Leaders,Most engineers spend their whole careers attending meetings that other people called.You show up prepared, you contribute, and you might well be the sharpest person in the room. But then it ends, and the person who scheduled it is often the one everyone associates with whatever got decided.That gap is worth understanding, because there’s a genuine difference between the person who calls a meeting and the person who attends one. The person who calls it picks up credibility fro
Can anyone explain your work when you’re not in the room? (opens the original)
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Dear Future Leaders,Most of the conversations that determine your career happen in rooms you’ll never sit in.Such as calibration meetings where managers argue for their people. Cross-functional meetings where someone mentions a piece of work and attaches a name to it. And executive meetings where a senior leader nods to somebody’s domain expertise while making an unrelated point.You probably aren’t invited to any of those, and you can’t defend yourself in them.What goes in your place is whatever
Why the room stops listening before you get to your point (opens the original)
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Dear Future Leaders,Have you ever walked out of a meeting where your idea got talked over, and spent the rest of the evening replaying it, wondering why nobody would listen to you, or fuming that the… Read more
The real cost of analysis paralysis and 4 steps to break out of it (opens the original)
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Dear Future Leaders,Have you ever wanted to be certain a technical decision was right, so you checked with a couple of other senior engineers, then a third, and by the time you came back with an answer, the moment had passed, and someone else had already moved?From the inside, that process feels responsible. You’re not guessing, you’re not risking a bad call on something that matters, and you’re taking the decision seriously enough to get other perspectives before committing.But from the outside
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