Be Seen, Be Heard, Get Promoted: Strategies for Career Success with Erica Rooney
Are you ready to take your career by the reins and achieve your ambitions? Join us as we explore how to make meaningful, courageous steps forward in any corporation. We discuss visibility-boosting tactics that will get you noticed, plus practical ways of staying up-to-date with industry trends so you're one step ahead. If you're seeking career advancement, this episode is for you.
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Erica Rooney climbed the corporate ladder from an individual contributor role to C-Level Executive - in just under 10 years. Today she is the Chief People Officer at Blue Acron iCi.
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Big Ladder Before Hitting The Ceiling
We spend so much time and so much energy with the people that we work with and doing the work that I want it to be a positive and impactful experience from the moment that they apply online. All the way until they leave the company, it should be filled with positive moments that matter throughout that employee's life cycle.
You can only go so far up the corporate ladder before you hit a ceiling.
And the corporate ladder's big. I've got a long way to go.
The engagement with the employee starts right from the beginning, and it's a continuous journey even beyond when they leave the organization as well. It's all about helping the.
Everybody has a dream company that they've never, ever worked for. They have no idea if it's gonna be good or not, but they have this dream company because of what they see online, what they read on Glassdoor, and what they hear from other people. So it really starts before that. And then they wanna go and they apply online.
They want it to be easy. Putting a resume in and then having to manually fill out all of their previous experience and what they did.
So there are all of these different steps and so they make it through this interview process, should be hands down a great experience because you should be interviewing the company as much as the company is interviewing you. They should be coached on what questions to ask so that they can make sure.
Brené Brown is the one who said the opposite of belonging is fitting in. And that resonated so much with me because if you're trying to fit in, you're not being your true, authentic self.
It's so important to have a diversity of thought, diversity of backgrounds, and diversity of experience, that if we're just looking for people to fit into our culture, we are missing out on so many amazing candidates.
If we're wanting people to just fit in how we are now, then we're gonna be stuck. We're not gonna grow into the future.
Part of growing in innovation and creativity within the future of an organization is bringing people in from different backgrounds and experiences and in cultures and taking that organization to the future, not currently fitting in as to where it is.
Earning Trust
It takes a long time to earn trust, but it can be quickly broken. And when you're talking about the moments that matter, those are exactly the moments that matter.
Where if we're not at being attentive if somebody goes for an internal position and doesn't get the role, but we are not there to support them through the process afterward and what that journey looks like, that can be broken trust. And it's those big moments that quickly erode trust.
Trust is a big portion of whether somebody is in the job, the company, or the people that they work with. Trust is big in an organization.
Psychological safety is so important and I think that people overlook that because “hey, we're paying you, show up, do the work.” But when you're talking about employee experience when you're talking about trust and psychological safety, trust is so easily broken.
Integrity And Core Values
You can do all of the things and stay true to your core values.
And I thought that was such a positive spin on it and such a great way to look at it that hopefully you can start to change the environment around you. These toxic cultures fester over time. They don't just pop up and that is the hard part, and the change is not gonna happen overnight either.
But as long as you are acting with your integrity and your core values, nobody can hang anything over your head either, which is so powerful for you as an individual.
People can ask us to do certain things, but if it's not in line with our core values, we have the option to say no.
Nobody wants to cross off. Something like collaboration, but maybe you're a very individualistic person and you like working alone, so you have to really get very clear with yourself and not take yourself. Like not treating yourself too harshly when you're going through those, because that was a hard piece of it for me was crossing off some of those words.
It doesn't mean that you are not those things. It doesn't mean that you're not an honest person or collaborative when it calls for it. It just means that that is not the thing that guides you.
If you are someone that thrives off of working alone and collaboration is not gonna be your guiding light, that's okay.
Steps can take to achieve success:
Putting your fear aside and talking about it from day one, asking about it from day one. If you're an individual contributor wanting to be a manager, Tell your leader, I wanna be a VP someday. Tell your leader, I wanna be a CEO someday. We don't have to have these baby-step dreams. Those are the stepping stones.
Set realistic timelines. How many is it years of experience thing? Is it a certification education? Because those things shift all the time, especially within organizations. Have a roadmap down, and figure out what they need to do during those stepping stones.
Fight For Yourself
Evaluation is extremely important. I know that when I was working for an organization, the qualifications to get promoted changed almost every year. So it was a constant conversation. And also the value in having a lot of time, companies, managers, and employees will, the only time that discussion about the future of the career happens at the annual performance review.
Sometimes it is not up to your manager to promote you. It is not up to your manager to know what you wanna do. It is not up to your manager to give you an. In an ideal world, every single manager would know exactly how fabulous their person is, how much money they should get, and they would give it to 'em.
But that is not how it works.
You have to fight for yourself.
So one of the biggest things that I do when I talk with people about getting seen, getting heard, and getting promoted is to keep a weekly of the amazing things that they are doing.
We all know what those are, those random side projects that just kind of come through and they somehow fall on your lap. Keep track of all of those things because when that mid-year or annual review comes, you forgot you did it. Your manager forgot you did it. They're managing 10 people. So write those things down so that all you have to do.
The more people who know your goals and dreams, the better it is for you. The more opportunities you may be exposed to.
No one cares more about your career than you do. And it's on the forefront of your mind because we, get to remember that it's not always on the forefront of everybody else's mind.
If the role doesn't exist, doesn't mean that you can't create it.
I tell people all the time, we don't know what we don't know. You have to fight for it. You have to look for these things.
Be creative and don't be scared to do it.
So even if the answer is no, remember it's not a hard stop. Go back to the way things were.
There is still a possibility.
Stepping into Your Dream Job and Crafting Your Ideal Career
There are so many things, and I would say just always remember, and we touched on it a little bit, be your biggest advocate, and do not be scared to make connections on LinkedIn and reach out to people on LinkedIn. That is the best professional platform out there.
Do not just cold call people though, do not just email them and tell them, I'm interested in your company.
Figure out how you can serve them. First, it is about service, so if you reach out to somebody, show interest in them.
So figure out how you can connect and how you can serve on LinkedIn so that people want to engage back with you.
LinkedIn is a powerful, powerful platform. If you want to have a thriving career in the long term, be on LinkedIn.
Even if you have a job right now. I know people who have had a job have been very happy. Were not looking for a job, but it happened to be the recruiter. They started posting on LinkedIn. They started to share, their areas of expertise, and their wisdom.
I'm grateful that I took the time early on in my career to do my LinkedIn profile because I never had to look for a job. I was recruited into different roles, but I've also seen the power within this past couple of years of community on LinkedIn.
