Career Growth Strategies in Startups and MNCs

Ethan Evans went from managing 6 people to over 800 at Amazon. He credits The Magic Loop for his quick rise over just 8 years. The Magic Loop is a framework that will accelerate your career. It will accelerate your job search as well! Here's what it is... 1️⃣ Do Your Current Job Well The most surefire way to advance in your career is to be good at your job. In your job: This allows people to trust that you're someone to invest time and energy into. In your job search: It also makes you one of the first ones people think of when they see an attractive job opening that needs to be filled. In Step 2, if you go to your manager and ask how you can help and their answer is, "Do your job," you're not ready to move on. 2️⃣ Ask Your Manager How You Can Help Managers put on a pretty face, but everyone needs help. In your job: Ask your manager what they need help with or even better, identify areas that they need help with for them and ask to help them with it. In your job search: Ask the team at your target organization about the problems they have. Dig deep to understand the specifics and how you can help. Be the most helpful person on the team. 3️⃣ Do What They Ask If you do steps 1 and 2 but don't execute on step 3 you may do more harm than good. It's critical that once you say you're going to do something... you do it! In your job: Understand the task at hand, create a plan for execution, share that plan with your manager, begin execution, and share regular updates with your manager. Upon completion, share results, next steps, and ask for more. In your job search: Take the problems you have uncovered, create a resource that solves the problem for them (case study, playbook, spreadsheet, etc.) and send it to the team. Bonus points for offering to do free work to implement it for them. 4️⃣ Ask For Work That Advances Your Career Many people think their manager has the superpower of mind reading. No one is thinking about you and your career as much as you are. And you don't get what you don't ask for. In your job: Seek tasks that interest you and improve your skills, aiding your 5-year career goals while benefiting the company. In your job search: Look for roles that bridge your current skills and your 5-year objectives. Once you've proven your skills, ask to discuss potential team openings and how you can be an asset to the company. 5️⃣ Repeat The Process The cycle continues with more good work. In your job: This is what leads to promotions. In your job search: Once you have executed all 5 steps for one target company, move on to executing them for your next target company. This process works and has been proven in both careers and job searches to produce outsized results. As you can see, it takes work. But the ones who get where they want to go are willing to do the work. --------------------------- P.S. Enjoy this? Follow me, Kyle Thomas, for more. #startups #startupjobs #hiring #jobsearch

How to get promoted 10x faster than your peers. 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: It was my first startup (Zenefits), and I was the last customer support rep hired on a team of 6. After 7 months my VP offered me an opportunity to lead support for a brand new product launch (Zenefits Payroll). I was given this opportunity over everyone else on the team. Including people who'd been there for multiple years. 𝗛𝗼𝘄'𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻? Here's my honest go-to strategy for making things like this happen in your career. My advice has nothing to do with how I feel, believe or think things should be or work at companies. It all comes from being in the trenches, making a lot of mistakes, seeing people make a lot of mistakes and genuinely wanting to help others by sharing my experience. So please apply these things and watch magical things happen for your career. 𝟭. 𝗡𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 I don't complain. Not to peers. Definitely not to my boss. No one. This will always be one of the easiest way to differentiate yourself. People are emotional. Start ups are hard. People complain a lot. 𝟮. 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 Instead of sharing frustrations with my boss every 1:1 and giving them problems to figure out. I align on how I can help them with their goals. Try this in your next 1:1 Hey Boss, a lot's happening right now. Would you mind sharing what your top priorities are this quarter? I want to do everything I can to help and make an impact. And then whatever they say, focus on getting results for yourself (and your team!) on those things. 𝟯. 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 Obsess over finding things that are hard and do everything you can to make a positive impact. For example, we had certain types of cases that were always the most difficult. People hated it when they got them. I told the team if you don't want that type of case then to transfer it to me and I'll take it off your plate. Guess what I did from there? Built a process for handling those types of cases and shared the results with my boss. 𝟰. 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 People poo poo on this for some reason and I don't understand why. Yes, in a perfect world you should be able to do whatever you want and be celebrated for who you are but that's not the reality of companies or how things actually go down unfortunately. So act two roles above where you're at and make it so your boss and your boss's boss can easily envision you in a much bigger role. Remove all risk and concern by looking and acting the part well ahead of getting it. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵: These 4 things seem simple. Some may even roll their eyes. But < 10% of people actually do this consistently. Especially when things are hard. My longest post ever, Mike G

Here's the promotion strategy most professionals completely miss: being amazing at your current job doesn't automatically get you promoted. I see this mistake constantly. People think exceptional performance equals advancement, but that's not how promotion decisions actually work. Companies don't promote you for mastering your current role - they promote you when you've already proven you can handle the next level. Here's the strategic shift you need to make: Stop waiting for recognition of past achievements. Start demonstrating future capabilities right now. How to operate at the next level before you get there: 1. Think beyond your immediate responsibilities - Understand broader business challenges and opportunities. Your perspective needs to expand beyond your current scope. 2. Contribute strategic insights, not just status updates - During meetings, present solutions and analysis, not just task completion reports. 3. Communicate with next-level authority - Present solutions, not just problems. Your communication style should reflect the level you want, not where you are. 4. Take initiative on stretch projects - Demonstrate leadership capability before receiving the formal title. Show them you can handle increased responsibility. The visibility factor is everything: Companies promote people who have already proven they can handle more responsibility, not those who might be capable with proper development. By consistently operating at your desired level, you make promotion the logical next step rather than a developmental risk. You eliminate the guesswork about your readiness and position yourself as the obvious choice when opportunities arise. What strategies have you found most effective for demonstrating readiness for advancement? Sign up to my newsletter for more corporate insights and truths here: https://vist.ly/3ycta #deepalivyas #eliterecruiter #recruiter #recruitment #jobsearch #corporate #careeradvancement #promotionstrategies #leadershipdevelopment #careerstrategist