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Avoiding the typical advice offered by popular career websites
Popular career advice suggests you can increase your salary by doing better in your performance review or by getting more education from a university.
However, this advice is out of date. Doubling your salary or at least increasing is about breaking the norm and trying things that are more radical.
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The goal should be more than money
Aim for a goal such as:
- To be a leader in your field.
- To become a leader of people.
- To support projects you care about with your extra money
- To make more money to start a side business.
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Staying at your current company strategies
- Get one customer on your side. Focus most of your time on one customer. It could involve a weekly phone call and making their experience better.
- Referring a customer is a great way to be helpful in business.
- Choose a role that exploits one skill that you have and become known for it internally.
- Take on an unofficial leadership role and stay committed.
- Sit in a different location every day at work. This can lead to meet lots of people in other departments.
- Be genuinely interested in what you do.
- Attend meetings where you feel out of your depth.
- Look after your appearance.
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Leaving your current company strategies
- Work less and be smarter with your time. E.g. attend fewer meetings.
- Utilize your work colleagues who could introduce you to new opportunities.
- LinkedIn can lead you to new opportunities or consulting gigs. Posting content regularly can lead you to have conversations with strangers that can lead to new opportunities.
- Start a side-hustle.
- Invest some of your paycheques.
- Add in freelancing. Freelancing opportunities abound and could turn into a full-time business or full-time job.
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