Build a network of peers

September 04, 2021

當作者跟越來越多staff-plus的人討論職涯建議一個最常聽到的建議就是建立跟你工作性質接近的network 雖然不是所有人都給這個建議但有給這個建議的人通常都把這個建議當成最強烈的建議

以下片段節錄自作者對數個staff-plus的訪談

What’s been most impactful for me is having a lot of people who I think of as mentors, usually friends, former managers, and folks that I’ve worked with. I have a decent number of recurring monthly lunches, coffee chats, and dinners with people who’ve worked with me in the past, know me, and I trust. It’s those conversations about career challenges and growth that have gotten me to where I am in my career. - Ritu Vincent

The thing that springs to mind is to find your peers or support network. Just like management, it gets lonely the higher up you go, and it’s important to find peers that will still challenge you, and you can brainstorm ideas with. It doesn’t even matter if they’re in your similar area of work or even are in different companies. - Keavy McMinn

It’s also been really valuable for me to cultivate a good personal network of other senior engineers. I chat with them informally about whatever it is that we’re working on and thinking about. When you have personal connections, you can get very unvarnished views of the problems people are seeing and the solutions they’re considering. - Nelson Elhage

大家都知道你應該需要build a network 但很多人其實不知道該怎麼做到有兩個建議給你

1.Being esay to find

2.Networking internally