JobTok: Level Up with Career Growth and Job Hunt Tips From High Achievers

We know that many of you, probably most of you, our ambitious growth minded professionals, seeking ways to accelerate your career but what does it mean to accelerate? How fast can you really go? Given the right opportunities and maybe even with the right skills and the right mindset, is it really possible to rocket to the top? Or do you really just maybe get promoted a year or a couple of years earlier than your peers?

Well, today, we have a real rocket ship story for you with Camille, who went from intern to head of marketing and growth in just a few years. Today, she leads a massive org in a newly minted unicorn. How did she do it? And how can we try to emulate some of her success? You will find them in this episode, so, check it out.

Show notes available here.

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JobTok has brought to you interesting learnings - from dealing with colleagues, how to get noticed in meetings, preparing for year-end proposals to making successful career transitions, joining an unknown startup over a tech giant, over the 12 episodes we published. 

But we will NOT stop there. We look forward to the break but we are coming back strong in 2022 with insightful tips about careers and so much more.

To begin with, we have a few exciting news to share. In addition to our current shows, MoneyTok and Jobtok, we are launching our third show called ShopTok, offering practical advice and tips for small businesses, bootstrapped entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and creators. It’s coming on February 22, so stay tuned. 

We are also launching the CrazyTok community where all of you can exchange knowledge, with peers and experts in a supportive and safe environment. We promise good conversation, good company and good results for you.

Go ahead and sign up for early access.

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Thank you all. We wish you happy holidays and a wonderful new year.

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Rome was not built in one-day and certainly, not alone. CrazyTok has released 20 podcast episodes for MoneyTok and 12 episodes for JobTok with support and love from our colleagues, partners, guests and mainly our listeners. We wanted to give actionable, take away for our listeners in terms of financial management or the success of your careers through the podcast we create and we hope that it has been very useful to you all. 2021 was surely not a very easy year but it is coming to an end and we would like to appreciate your contributions to us. May you all have a happy new year!

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When mapping your career path, especially in a larger organization, there is an often faced conundrum. Should I stick to the same line of business, becoming a domain or niche expert, or should I leverage the internal mobility in the organization, whereby I can get the opportunities to actually change roles and lines of business. What is the path that helps accelerate and secure your future the best? Also, as a hiring manager, should you look to get people from the same line, or should you be looking to get diversity. And by diversity I do not mean identity diversity, but diversity of experience and thought process.

Show notes available here.

Have you considered changing your career direction or industry but remained where you are because you’re worried you wouldn’t be able to make the shift? Well today we’re talking to Rivana Mezaya, Director at Grab Indonesia, who’s not only made the shift but done it repeatedly and in completely different ways, from law to government to academia to tech and she’s going to help us figure out how to make a successful career transition. 

And in case you love what she has to say and want to learn more, Meza has kindly offered to answer questions via a future blog post so feel free to click the link in the episode description to submit questions to her.

Show notes available here.

The early years of your working life can be quite challenging because that’s when you learn the mostly unwritten rules of the game. And unlike at school or university there is limited support to see you through, other than the networks you are able to build. I was lucky in my first job, as I joined as part of a management trainee batch so we had each other. And many of them became close friends, not just colleagues, so we had a real support group. But not everyone is so lucky.

Today we have with us Grehg Yeo, founder of the 1 Foot In podcast that’s focused at early career professionals and, in a plot twist vs our normal format, he’s going to interview me to answer the top 3 questions new grads have about working life.

Show notes available here.

Have you ever had to make a choice between a safe, lucrative role versus something new and different and unknown that could accelerate your career but, equally, turn out to be a dead end or disaster? Do you take the safe, boring route to the top or do you roll the dice and take what might be the biggest gamble of your career?

We talked to Prasad Naik, Director at Wolt, about exactly that kind of choice and how he made the decision between a safe, lucrative job offer with a leading global brand versus joining an upstart on its growth journey.

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• free Career Retrospective template to help you make better career choices in future

Year end is when everyone slogs it out to complete their projects and do a good job so they can try and gain some brownie points in their performance reviews.

But does that work? And is a last minute blaze of glory the only thing that you can do to try and boost your rating and bonus? Actually, no. If you start planning now, you can do a lot more.

In this episode we cover 3 things (in addition to hard work) that could help improve your chances of a good rating and 5 steps you can take right now to be better prepared for your next performance review.

Show notes and full transcript here: https://bit.ly/jt-ep08

Got a new joiner on the team? Maybe it’s a new employee or perhaps someone who’s transferred from elsewhere. It’s their first few days and they’re naturally a little tentative, feeling their way around the org and getting used to the working style in your team. So, how do you help them settle in and build their confidence so they can start taking on their share of responsibility quickly?

Show notes: https://bit.ly/jt-ep07

I have very few career regrets, but if I had to pick, I'd say one regret is that I spent half of my career going with the flow. I wonder sometimes whether I might have been better off if I had made more intentional choices earlier in life.

If you too have been moving jobs just because they made an offer, or pay a bit more or are just at a convenient location, think again. Don't you have a dream job or a dream role or even a dream location that you want to work at someday? Well why not make that someday, today?

Show notes and a Dream Job Listing Template here