preface

I have been rather restless these days.

A lot of things to think about, none of them about technology.

Today I’d like to talk to you about a topic we all care about: promotion.

In the afternoon, I held a meeting and talked about this topic with some of my subordinates. I also got some new feelings.

Here to record, incidentally share with you, I hope to inspire you.

Today’s main content:

  • Why should I be promoted?
  • What kind of people are more likely to get promoted?
  • How can I get promoted?
  • The promotion is so tiring. Can't I just lie down?

The body of the

First consider this question: Why do we need a promotion? .

Why a promotion?

Think back to the way we were raised, the ideas we were taught, such as:

  • study hard and make progress every day
  • People want to move up as water has to flow down.
  • Man is difficult if he will try
  • Long wind and waves will sometimes, straight sail to the sea

And so on.

All the way to high school, teachers are repeating:

  • Study hard so that you can enter a good university in the future.
  • Work hard now, and it will be easy when you go to college.
  • You go to a good college, you get a good job, you get ahead.
  • .

The spirit of working hard and positive has always been with our growth.

Through primary school, middle school, high school and university, intentionally or unintentionally, they are divided into different levels.

The higher up you go, the higher the hierarchy, the greater the possibility of getting more social resources later on.

In fact, the same is true at work, the higher the hierarchy, the greater access to resources, benefits and contacts.

At the same time, they have a greater ability to protect themselves.

I believe that most of us are ambitious and want to make a difference when we first step into the society.

There are some people, strict with themselves, positive, continuous learning. In the work, outstanding performance, quickly get the boss’s recognition and promotion, promotion and salary, to the peak of life.

There are also some people who lose their goals, slowly slack off, become a monk day after day, finally become marginal figures, sinking in the workplace.

Three years after graduation, the gap gradually opened, five years later, the gap is more obvious.

It takes some luck to get promoted, but I think luck can be engineered.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

There’s only one big premise: you’re working on your own plan, not aimlessly.

Planning is important, everyone is the designer and architect of his own destiny.

To return to the topic, let me first answer why I want to be promoted based on my own understanding:

  • Promotion can lead toMore resources
  • Promotions can callA broader vision
  • Promotion can lead toBetter career development and job opportunities
  • Promotions can callBetter income

There are many benefits to being promoted.

So what kind of people are more likely to get promoted?

What kind of people are more likely to get promoted?

There are thousands of people in the workplace, and only a limited number of them can be promoted.

But promotions are not untraceable. Promotion is also methodological, here to share a few more practical experience:

  1. Be proactive and do business
  2. Continuous learning, technology empowerment
  3. Empathy, value driven

So let me expand on that.

1. Be proactive and do business

There are two key words here: active and proactive.

Let me start with my understanding.

First of all, a positive team atmosphere is an important part of shaping a good team image.

People who can motivate others and increase team productivity will be given priority.

Initiative, can take the initiative to plan work tasks, take the initiative to learn more information from others, take the initiative to communicate, take the initiative to ensure progress and quality, control risks, and continue to follow up.

In addition, if you have plans for a promotion, it’s best to take the initiative to talk to your supervisor and ask him to give you some suggestions.

Follow the advice given, determine the short-term plan and long-term plan, implement it, and regularly communicate actively, is also very helpful for promotion.

In fact, there are many people around us, diligent, dull work, as old cattle.

I did a lot of things, and it was very hard.

Another boss who isn’t as focused on growth is likely to become a tool man:

So we need to be proactive and avoid becoming tool men.

2. Continuous growth and technical empowerment

In addition to being proactive, we should also focus on our own growth.

Keep looking for areas where you can grow and expand your boundaries.

For the same 10 years, someone will only do what they know how to do, over and over again, and eventually become a journeyman.

There’s a huge gap between people who continue to learn and develop and become technical experts.

So:

Don’t repeat 1 year of experience for 10 years, but really accumulate 10 years of experience.

If you already have a job that you can easily do, it’s time to do something more difficult, more complex, rather than grinding your proficiency level and wallowing in a feel-good state.

For example, if you have been doing business development, you have become the backbone of the team, not only high efficiency, but also good quality.

Then you can try to complete solution design, architecture design, architecture refactoring, and system optimization.

In addition, whether things are done right or not, you should do a lot of review to find areas where you can improve.

Another important point: after learning, it is best to have tangible results.

The result could be:

  • An article
  • A technical share that helped a colleague
  • Made a tool to optimize development efficiency
  • Optimized a problem in the project
  • Optimized a business scenario, improved user experience, and brought benefits to the project
  • .

In addition to being proactive and growing, we need to put ourselves in others’ shoes.

3. Empathy, value driven

If you were in charge, what kind of person would you promote?

Without a doubt, someone who can create more value.

People who bring value to the company are more likely to be promoted than those who have nothing to offer.

So if your time is valuable, prioritize learning skills that add value to your organization.

By the way, please share our r&d requirements and expectations:

How can I get promoted?

There is a saying in Ali: promotion comes naturally.

But what is natural?

Some people understand that good performance means promotion.

Some people understand that ability enough can be promoted, but what is ability enough? Different people understand different things, it’s hard to measure.

About competence and performance, we need to be clear:

Performance is about business results, promotion is about ability improvement.

The two are not necessarily related.

I think there are two ways to think about it:

  1. Are you doing it at your current levelProficient and effortless?
  2. Whether or not youPossess the capabilities required at the next level?

Let’s start with number one: Be proficient at your current level and do your job well.

Let’s first look at the differences between basic, skilled and proficient (the following text is from Liu Yunhua’s guide to promotion in big factories)

Foundation meansWould like to be doing

If you can do what is required at a certain level, you have the basic skills.

Of course, it means being able to do it on your own, rather than being told to do it after someone else has thought it out.

Proficiency meansdo

As opposed to basic, proficiency means being able to do things well at your current level.

To do a good job is to master the best practices, to ensure efficiency and quality, to get good results.

Mastery meansTo optimize the

Mastery is the ability to optimize things at the current level. Like taking a different approach, thinking, and tools to do the same thing and break through.

If we have to make a distinction between doing well and optimizing, we can understand it this way: doing well simply means learning from someone else’s experience, while optimizing means creating your own experience.

What is a new experience? This is not about being “global first,” but being new in your environment (team, line of business, company, etc.).

A microservices architecture, for example, might already be used by other companies, but if you’re the one who introduced it to that company, it’s your optimization.

It should also be noted that the criteria I have compiled are intended to judge the competencies required at a given level, not the level of individual skills.

For example, if you work in development, the P5/P6’s core responsibility is project development, which involves a series of individual skills such as business understanding, project planning, programming languages, and Bug fixing.

For these specific skill levels, it is more appropriate to distinguish between skill breadth and skill depth.

Common steps for promotion are:

  1. Start by raising your current level to mastery.
  2. Continue to improve at the next level, and then actively look for opportunities to work at the next level.
  3. Finally apply for a promotion with the results of your work.

After all the work of a promotion, why not lie down?

It’s worth mentioning what we know as the 35-year-old crisis.

To tell you the truth, I have worried about this problem too.

Take a look at the following question and answer:

It’s hard to find a job after 35, mainly because of the cost of employment.

Fresh graduates are obedient, strong learners and able to work overtime. Easy to use and cheap.

At this price adjustment, we can only win by the advantage we gain through our growth over time.

I want you as a reader to think about what that advantage is.

Now there is another saying: we programmers, if we work for 10 years, are ready to accumulate the wealth we need for the rest of our lives.

Slightly exaggerated, but realistic.

If you are like a friend of mine, you have a building in Shenzhen with hundreds of mining machines and two bitcoins a day. Come to work just to pass the time, don’t want to be a curly king, that’s fine.

But most of us are just ordinary people who have to struggle to survive in the workplace.

As the saying goes: everything is done beforehand, unanticipated waste.

If you have an idea or plan for a promotion, you need to prepare early.

conclusion

In short, the workplace is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to fall back.

Dare to take responsibility, dare to challenge the workplace is the effective survival rules, there is no survival soil.

I wish everyone a smooth promotion.

That’s all for today, I hope to inspire you. Thank you.

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