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Growing Your Career

Growing Your Career

Actionable advice about how to grow your career and network as a woman in tech.

11 Tools to Enhance Your Team's Productivity and Earn You the Title "World's Best Boss"

Working in Tech can be very exciting and rewarding, but it can also come with challenges. With many teams running lean due to layoffs, employees are feeling the pressure and often struggle to deliver their best work while managing burnout.‍ What can you as a manager do to help with this? After all, you’re plenty burned out yourself!‍ You can get back to the core of what has always made tech an exciting industry - innovation and problem-solving.

Growing Your Career

Get WEIRD to Plan Your Career: Ideate and Implement (Part 5 of 5)

If you’ve been following the five-part series so far, congratulations on making it to the end! If you’re just joining and would like to catch up on parts one, two, three or four first, please feel free and then come back to this once you’re ready.

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Get WEIRD to Plan Your Career: Ideate and Implement (Part 4 of 5)

This is the midpoint in a five-step process called the WEIRD process that we’re applying toward gaining career clarity and determining what’s next. As a career coach, I love helping people discover next steps that energize them. Figuring this out can be a challenging task, especially if you haven’t followed a cookie-cutter career path.

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Navigating Career Crossroads: To stay as an Individual Contributor or Become a Manager?

As a technology professional, there will come a point when you wonder whether to continue growing as an Individual Contributor or transition into a management role. At the mid-career level, this decision can be particularly challenging, as the path you choose can significantly impact your career and life.

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Get WEIRD to Plan Your Career: Want to Change (Part 1 of 5)

Career planning is like embarking on a great adventure. Whether you have a map and a destination in mind, or you’re exploring uncharted territory with only your heart and the stars to guide you, it can feel daunting to get started. What would you tell a friend feeling overwhelmed upon contemplating their career plans? Would you quote Lao Tzu and say, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” ask what the easiest forward-moving task is and cheer them on as they check it off their list? Would you listen to them vent about their challenges and invite them to sit with their feelings without judgment? Or would you offer to tackle the challenge together and revisit your own career plans at the same time?

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Get WEIRD to Plan Your Career: Educate on Solutions (Part 2 of 5)

The second step in the WEIRD Process is Educate on Solutions. During this phase, we explore and research various options and paths we can pursue in an actionable way toward achieving our goals. We then run small tests on some of these in the third step, Ideate and Implement.

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Get WEIRD to Plan Your Career: Ideate and Implement (Part 3 of 5)

This is the midpoint in a five-step process called the WEIRD process that we’re applying toward gaining career clarity and determining what’s next. As a career coach, I love helping people discover next steps that energize them. Figuring this out can be a challenging task, especially if you haven’t followed a cookie-cutter career path.

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Navigating Career Crossroads: Individual Contributor VS Management

Turn your review into a great opportunity for professional development and align with your manager

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How to Tell an Empowered Career Story by Finding and Defining Your Throughline (Cee Reel, Cultivate Your Weirdness)

Designer and coach Cee Reel on using storytelling to define your career throughline

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Making Networking Work For You (Rachel Serwetz, WOKEN)

Rachel Serwetz from WOKEN shares seven steps to make networking work for you.

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Should SWEs be paid for on-call time?

What you should expect if you're an engineer expected to be available 24/7

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How to Make the Most of Your Performance Review

Turn your review into a great opportunity for professional development and aligning with your manager

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How To Support Coworkers Who've Been Laid Off

Practical ways to help colleagues affected by a layoff

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How To Write Good LinkedIn Recommendations

A great reference can be a game changer for coworkers who are job searching... and writing it doesn't have to be a game breaker for you!

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How To Tell Your Boss You're Pregnant

How to share about your pregnancy at work, WITHOUT having to hide, wait, or deny what you're entitled to!

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Navigating Your Career in UX & Design

Learn how to start, thrive, and grow in a career in UX and design from an industry expert!

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Should You Get A Career Coach?

A career coach can help you can supercharge your professional growth - Find out how!

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How to Grow Your Network Strategically

Your network can be a professional superpower -- Find out how to build yours easily and effectively!

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