Remaining Relevant in Your Tech Career by Robert Stackowiak

Remaining Relevant in Your Tech Career by Robert Stackowiak

Author:Robert Stackowiak
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781484237038
Publisher: Apress


Signs You Should Move On

There can be many signs that you are not politically connected to the right places in your organization. Your advice might be ignored. Management might not be candid in sharing with you what is really taking place in the organization. You might have delivered one or more successful projects or solutions, but when your management received accolades, promotions, and additional compensation, you were not similarly rewarded.

These are signs that the time might have come for you to change the organization you work in or the company that you work for. You should first express your concerns to your management. It is possible they are simply inward-focused and have not considered the possible impact on your job satisfaction or your willingness to remain part of the teams. That said, you probably just discovered that any rewards that you might expect in the future are rewards that you will need to fight for.

If you have succeeded in establishing an external network, finding a job elsewhere might be the right answer and not at all difficult. Once you’ve come face to face with how political realities and considerations can affect your work life, you will probably have a lot of questions that you’ll want to ask of prospective employers about the politics in their organizations before accepting a new job.

Do not be too surprised if your current organization promises to match your compensation or improve your role once you’ve decided to leave. I have found that sometimes management will only react when backed into a corner. If you’ve been successful in the organization, management might fear that your departure will hurt their reputation among senior leaders. I personally find such offers to be offensive, as I believe the time to reward people is when they are delivering solutions, not when they have one foot out of the door.

Alternatively, you should not be too surprised if, in a company that is trying to get younger and increase margins and where technical skills and experience are not respected, your pending departure causes little response from management. This can occur even though there might be a lot of angst expressed by your co-workers about your pending departure. But this is another sign that you didn’t have the right political connections or management backing and that it is time to leave.



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