How Do You Take The Next Step After Senior+ Career Roles? Part 3 Creating Your Opportunities.
Creating And Finding Opportunities
Your first few will not always drop into your lap unless you have public success or a high profile position. You will need to make opportunities and signal your availability for them. This is a part of the game and it’s different from how you got your current role.
These roles take a lot longer to find. You’re in demand and can always find a lateral or incremental move. Those types of jumps take weeks in some cases. The next level of roles are not typically filled quickly. Sometimes everything aligns and you make a quick transition but that’s rare.
More often you need to make your own luck. It’s work to make yourself available for these roles so go back to your motivations and make sure it’s worth it.
It can look like a role fell into someone’s lap. After reading this, you’ll recognize many of these steps. They put in the work without everyone seeing the path they made for themselves.