"Self Advocacy–Tips and Tricks for Managing your Career in Tech"
summary
Emphasizes that employees drive their own careers through self-reflection, gap-closing and networking, and recommends concrete actions: build mentors, prepare negotiation data, and ask for help when overloaded. Company practices include launching a managing-your-career training, establishing career pathing, promoting top performers into people-manager roles, comparing pay to vetted market data, reviewing global compensation regularly, and running a monthly global office closure called TGIF off. Also stresses daily allyship: listen, do homework, speak up (not over), and apologize when wrong.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17Why is self advocacy important
- 1:03Career development and advancement
- 3:05Professional development
- 3:46Pay equity
- 5:13Our compensation process
- 6:05Selfcare
- 8:48Allyship
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