Playing politics is criminally underrated. Get good at it and fast!
I've also been able to flirt with Wilderbeast Wendy and Man-jaw Mandy at all my past jobs. Even went undercover and flirted with the same team too. Play the game, Anons. No shame in doing it.
Shout-out to BowTied White Belt for the assist with my internal transfer promotion to the Product team and shift towards hybrid work
The $150 fee was worth the negotiation advice alone, him them up:
BowTiedWhiteBelt – What to expect from an anon cartoon in the realm of Product
White Belt advertises their service as a Resume Review and consult call. In reality, as an early client of their service, they were able to over-deliver at every turn, providing moment to moment insights like a fighter coach in the boxing ring, slugging my way to a Manager role in Product shattering the 10% comp limit with a 20% raise.
Even before our session, White Belt provided pages upon pages of insights and recommendations for how to reframe my resume and experience in addition to resources I could dive into on my own. The outline of our call was four pages long! In reviewing where I was vs where I wanted to go, White Belt was able to assess the feasibility of my goals and what it would take to get there.
On my Resume, we discussed what experience should I underscore and what I should fade based on what Product Managers would care about. Some changes were as simple as changing words that better aligned with industry jargon, others were to include projects I never thought to even be relevant!
To strengthen my interviewing, he recommended projects and accomplishments that I should reframe as answers to various Product-related interview questions. I should have few surprises in interviews going forward, as I now had a collection of projects to highlight various Product skills / abilities in response to most frequent questions. And looking back, we discussed past interviews I had, the results, and identified patterns to improve upon.
But wait, I haven’t even mentioned how White Belt not only found posted jobs they thought would be a fit, they provided step by step recommendations to navigate A) My interview B) Title negotiation C) Comp negotiation, highlighting what would matter most, how much leverage I had, what the hiring manager would concede on, and when to push for more comp. It was like having a coach in the ring at each step, which combined with my own sources at the firm, landed me a Product Manager promotion and a 20% comp increase, working from home two additional days per week! All at a company with an HR policy of ‘10% limit for comp increases’!
I would have paid four figures for this. Flat out, full stop. White Belt can increase your Recurring Income by thousands for the rest of your life, with optionality of Remote work. At the rate they’re charging, even if they only improved your odds by 10%, you’d be a clown not take advantage.
Jordan Peterson also talks about how important it is to have people like you. Lots of benefits in the scenario of something like layoffs such as having someone to bat for you and defend why you need to be kept etc.
"the worst long-term decisions are made when someone is up for promotion. They optimize for near-term numbers to appear good for that period of time at detriment to the firm and the next guy who shows up."
This is also one of the many reasons academia is as messed up as it is. The administrative track is: chair for a while, hired as a dean somewhere else for 5 years, then dean at a more impressive college or move up to provost next, there for 5 years, and steadily climb the ladder. (Possibly assorted associate positions in between). They all have to make changes to show their impact, that impact has to happen before they can hop jobs, and most important, it has to sound good.
Wrote some similar ideas for tech focused workers: https://open.substack.com/pub/bowtiedcrocodile/p/surviving-tech-layoffs?r=171ur&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Playing politics is criminally underrated. Get good at it and fast!
I've also been able to flirt with Wilderbeast Wendy and Man-jaw Mandy at all my past jobs. Even went undercover and flirted with the same team too. Play the game, Anons. No shame in doing it.
chatting with an exec he mentions closures are coming to invest into new offices and more opportunity. yeah sure
smile and nod
Shout-out to BowTied White Belt for the assist with my internal transfer promotion to the Product team and shift towards hybrid work
The $150 fee was worth the negotiation advice alone, him them up:
BowTiedWhiteBelt – What to expect from an anon cartoon in the realm of Product
White Belt advertises their service as a Resume Review and consult call. In reality, as an early client of their service, they were able to over-deliver at every turn, providing moment to moment insights like a fighter coach in the boxing ring, slugging my way to a Manager role in Product shattering the 10% comp limit with a 20% raise.
Even before our session, White Belt provided pages upon pages of insights and recommendations for how to reframe my resume and experience in addition to resources I could dive into on my own. The outline of our call was four pages long! In reviewing where I was vs where I wanted to go, White Belt was able to assess the feasibility of my goals and what it would take to get there.
On my Resume, we discussed what experience should I underscore and what I should fade based on what Product Managers would care about. Some changes were as simple as changing words that better aligned with industry jargon, others were to include projects I never thought to even be relevant!
To strengthen my interviewing, he recommended projects and accomplishments that I should reframe as answers to various Product-related interview questions. I should have few surprises in interviews going forward, as I now had a collection of projects to highlight various Product skills / abilities in response to most frequent questions. And looking back, we discussed past interviews I had, the results, and identified patterns to improve upon.
But wait, I haven’t even mentioned how White Belt not only found posted jobs they thought would be a fit, they provided step by step recommendations to navigate A) My interview B) Title negotiation C) Comp negotiation, highlighting what would matter most, how much leverage I had, what the hiring manager would concede on, and when to push for more comp. It was like having a coach in the ring at each step, which combined with my own sources at the firm, landed me a Product Manager promotion and a 20% comp increase, working from home two additional days per week! All at a company with an HR policy of ‘10% limit for comp increases’!
I would have paid four figures for this. Flat out, full stop. White Belt can increase your Recurring Income by thousands for the rest of your life, with optionality of Remote work. At the rate they’re charging, even if they only improved your odds by 10%, you’d be a clown not take advantage.
Bull can you start a series for WiFi money Wednesday
your reckon it’s better to look for a job hop closer to mid 2023?
WSP is back!
Jordan Peterson also talks about how important it is to have people like you. Lots of benefits in the scenario of something like layoffs such as having someone to bat for you and defend why you need to be kept etc.
"the worst long-term decisions are made when someone is up for promotion. They optimize for near-term numbers to appear good for that period of time at detriment to the firm and the next guy who shows up."
This is also one of the many reasons academia is as messed up as it is. The administrative track is: chair for a while, hired as a dean somewhere else for 5 years, then dean at a more impressive college or move up to provost next, there for 5 years, and steadily climb the ladder. (Possibly assorted associate positions in between). They all have to make changes to show their impact, that impact has to happen before they can hop jobs, and most important, it has to sound good.