Outwitting the Job Market Over the Long Term – Part 2
STAY ON GOOD TERMS WITH YOUR BOSS
Your boss is the person who will recommend you for a promotion, if the opportunity arises. For this reason and for many others, staying on good terms with her is imperative. Put time and effort into the relationship. Try to think from your boss’s perspective. What drives her? How does she do her job? And more importantly, what can you do to make her job easier? If there’s an important project in the works, for example, don’t hesitate to put in extra hours. Do the bureaucratic tasks that you know your boss detests. Come in early and stay late to make sure you’re always available should your boss need you. If you can lighten her workload in a helpful rather than invasive way, you will make yourself more valuable. In fact, if you can become indispensable to your boss, she will bring you up with her if she is promoted.
But what can you do if, despite your best efforts, your relationship with your boss isn’t working out? One account manager describes his difficult experiences with his former manager. He says, “My boss and I were...
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