Planning for your next role
Planning and Preparing For Your Next Role | You Got This!
- Rachel Nabors
On a long enough timeline, all jobs end - everyone will leave their jobs - as soon as you start a job, you're on a timeline to leaving that job
- Interview regularly
- informational interviews, with people whose work you admire
- how you're doing things
- desensitize
- once/twice a year
- batching
- each interview is practice for the next
- informational interviews, with people whose work you admire
- Get job offers
- Know when to quit
- Accept an offer
Update your resume at the end of a project
Guilty about interviewing - everyone will leave their jobs - you need to practice for the time when you go
Requesting feedback - debriefing - anonymous survey - this is totally a role I'd like to take in the future, anything will chart course for a role like this
What story do you want to tell?
Interviewing is like dating 1. Work on yourself 2. Show up 3. Put yourself forward
Find people who see you
"They're great except..." - they're not great for you
Knowing when to quit¶
End on a high note - delivered a big project - bagged a promo - got a great review
When should you definitely leave?¶
- you dislike yourself at work
- feel depressed at work but fine on holiday
- signs of reorgs
- management doesn't meet your KPIs
- kill switches are triggered
- line do you refuse to cross
- working with the military
- 50+ hours a week
- don't forget your bonus
Picking your next adventure¶
- who do I want to be working with?
- what do I want to be doing on a day to day basis?
- Where do I want to live?
- Salary?
- Growth potential?
- work/life balance?
- your mission
- Rachel Nabors: teach & empower people to solve their own problems
Decision making cycle¶
- Gathering
- concluding
- Acting
🚩Red Flags¶
Trust a bad feeling over a good one - be ruthless with companies - it's your life span
- if they can't find someone like you on and off the team
- excited/concern about social capital
- get clear on what's "theirs" vs "yours"
- promises to grow/change the role
- we're going to grow the team around you
- how long can you be happy as is?
- hybrid role
- except for a startup
- feeling like you have to "prove yourself"
- you proved yourself in the interview
- imposter syndrome
Good signs¶
- Someone who outranks you believes in you
- above your manager
- will you be working with people you could learn from?
- are these people you wish you could be more like?
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What will you do in 0.5/1/2 years?¶
- what you'd actually deliver/accomplish in the next 6 months
- who will you work with?
- what praise/hardship?
- How do you feel?
Would you take this bet?¶
Imagine best/worst outcomes - give them likelihood percentages
Saying goodbye¶
Recap what you did when you leave with a public
"What I did/learned/enjoyed" post