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4. How to Grow Your Career and Build a Path to Professional Success

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Alexis and Sara Shookus, a Director at Google, discuss strategies on how to grow your career and share stories about their journeys.

Alexis begins by describing the three stages of career advancement from a talk she developed while she was still at Google, that went viral internally:

Do amazing work
Elevate others
Make others notice

Sara then joins the discussion, and the two share insights and reflections based on their experiences at Google and beyond - addressing the performance review process, career moves, personal branding, and balancing career aspirations with the demands of motherhood.

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In this episode:

[2:13] 3 elements for high ratings and promotions
[3:50] Do Amazing Work
[7:24] Elevate Everyone
[12:17] Make Others Notice
[16:26] Alexis' reflections on guiding others in their career
[17:53] Sara Shookus: welcome & background
[22:44] Sara’s reflections on career progression
[28:25] Does Sara’s experience align with Alexis’ model?
[36:14] How to make horizontal career moves
[39:01] Skills people over-index on
[47:50] Balancing motherhood and career aspirations
[55:38] “Power Moves” - trajectory changing moves
[1:04:52] Overarching advice from Sara & Alexis

References:

Brene Brown: The importance of vulnerability
Tanya Reilly: GLUE work
Jenny Wood: Wild Courage
Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about

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Chapters

1. 4. How to Grow Your Career and Build a Path to Professional Success (00:00:00)

2. 3 elements for high ratings and promotions (00:02:13)

3. Do Amazing Work (00:03:50)

4. Elevate Everyone (00:07:26)

5. Make Others Notice (00:12:18)

6. Alexis' reflections on guiding others in their career (00:16:35)

7. Sara Shookus: welcome & background (00:17:57)

8. Sara’s reflections on career progression (00:22:49)

9. Does Sara’s experience align with Alexis’ model? (00:28:32)

10. How to make horizontal career moves (00:36:14)

11. Skills people over-index on (00:39:03)

12. Balancing motherhood and career aspirations (00:47:44)

13. “Power Moves” - trajectory changing moves (00:55:42)

14. Overarching advice from Sara & Alexis (01:04:46)

6 episodes