Your Job is Career Development

Your Job is Career Development

No really. It's your job.

Welcome New Individual Contributor!

Your job is mainly to write better software.

Let's Talk About How You Develop Your Career

1. Setting Goals
2. Taking small consistent Steps
3. Pushing yourself
4. Establish patterns of learning
5. Find mentors
6. Start figuring out where you want to go with your career

If you aren't going into people leadership... rinse, add mentoring others, and repeat ad infinitum.

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Welcome New Team Lead!

Your job is mainly to build a better performing team.

1. Do everything from IC
2. Find some new/additional Mentors
3. Help team members find mentors that help them toward their goals
4. Invest in your team's development

By now you're hopefully starting to see the "virtuous cycle" of career develpoment

Welcome New Engineering Manager/Director/VP!

Your Job is to provide strategy and to build leaders that build better teams.

1. Everything from before!
2. plus growing your network in and out of your company
3. building stronger relationships across disciplines