How to get a quick promotion in a foreign company

How to get a quick promotion in a foreign company

How to be promoted quickly in a foreign company? In order to be promoted quickly in the workplace, apart from being excellent enough, there are also personal specialties, and of course, it is inseparable from personal learning ability and work efficiency. Let's share how to promote quickly in foreign companies.

How to be promoted quickly in a foreign company 1 with Chinese and foreign educational background?

Foreign companies continue to entrust important tasks to local talents, which is related to their affirmation and recognition of the development of local talents in China. The head of a headhunting company said that most of the local top management talents they recommend to foreign companies are highly educated, 90% of them have the experience of studying abroad and training abroad, and many of them are Chinese.

Have excellent specialties.

To be a foreign company, you must be valuable. The human resources department hired you because you are valuable. They will put you in the right position according to your strengths. In this position, you should be fully qualified. People who are not qualified for their jobs have no future, and only those who wait for them will naturally be eliminated.

Have a strong sense of responsibility

Employees who work in an office do not measure their work by time, but by their degree of responsibility and other accomplishments. Employees have the responsibility to complete their own work. Overtime is even more important when employees don't finish their work within 8 hours. You should love your job and your career. Only in this way will the company reward you accordingly. In foreign companies, taking the initiative to ask for a promotion is encouraged, because foreign companies believe that if you ask for a position, it means that you are willing to take on greater responsibilities, which shows your confidence and courage to pursue upward.

Have the ability to learn

Foreign companies believe that an excellent employee will take every opportunity to learn and absorb new ideas and methods, learn from mistakes and never make the same mistakes again. A person who doesn't like learning has no future in today's society. The knowledge learned in the university can only account for 20% in the work, and more than 80% of the knowledge needs to be learned by doing. If a person is not good at learning and can't accept new knowledge and skills, there will be no potential to tap and no development.

Strong adaptability.

Excellent employees are not satisfied with their existing achievements and working methods, but are willing to try new methods. Because in today's ever-changing world, only by taking precautions can we turn passivity into initiative and meet new challenges. A foreign company is a branch or office of a foreign company in China. Changes in the world economy and China economy, adjustments and changes in the management of the company, personnel changes, etc. Everything is normal. These changes will affect your work and your position more or less to meet the needs of market competition. How to keep a normal attitude to meet and adapt to changes is the minimum preparation for people working in foreign companies. As your job responsibilities increase, it becomes more important to adapt to changes.

Have team spirit.

Foreign companies know that individual strength is limited, and only by giving full play to the role of the whole team can they overcome greater difficulties and achieve greater success. The essence of management lies in communication. If there is a problem in management, it is generally a communication failure. The superior should communicate with the subordinate, and the subordinate should also actively communicate with the boss. Without communication, there will be barriers. Leaving again is never a good idea. Employees who are good at communication are easy to be understood and accepted by everyone, and will also be recognized by everyone.

How to get a quick promotion in a foreign company? First of all, the first step is to define the goal, understand the ability needed to achieve the goal, and set the goal in stages.

For example, the common promotion paths of test engineers are: junior test engineer, senior test engineer and senior test engineer. The specific requirements of each title and the actual division of titles vary greatly from company to company, so you need to check the details of the promotion requirements of relevant companies.

For example, our company's requirements for senior engineers are: be able to make quality assurance plans for various projects, such as high and low risks, diverse business types, and have certain influence in many technical directions and influence across multiple departments.

Next, the second step is to determine the direction of work.

To determine the direction of work, the core keyword is: active thinking.

As I said just now, our company belongs to a relatively mature company, and our work is basically the work of screws. If you want to improve, you must innovate, but there are very few such cakes, and even if there are, it is generally not our turn.

If we pin our hopes on the boss and wait for him to give us bread to eat, it is equivalent to putting our own destiny in the hands of others. I don't think smart people would do such a thing.

Last year, there was a saying in the circle of friends. I don't know if you have seen it. It says that "everyone needs to shine without being noticed", which is a very realistic problem we face in our work.

So, what is the solution? That is to think positively, regard bosses, companies and colleagues as our resources, let us decide what we can do, what we can do and how to do it, learn to actively integrate resources and actively find our own cakes.

So, how should I find it?

Finding the direction is to start from the product itself and tap the potential problems of the product.

We can ask ourselves four key questions, "What is the biggest pain point in our work at present?" "Where do we spend our energy every day?" "What do you need to do to solve these problems? These things have been solved, can they still support our promotion? .

For example, I was in charge of a business test. At that time, I was temporarily seconded by another department for three months to help complete the test of a major project. Three months later, I returned to my original department, but the good pit was gone, and my boss reassigned me a business. This business is not very valued by the boss, and everyone feels that there is no room for improvement.

I thought at that time, since this business needs to arrange one person to follow up with all the manpower, it must have its value. At that time, I asked myself these four questions and finally found a work direction that could support my promotion.

Later, a colleague who had left his job came to me and wanted me to work in his new company. The reason is that when others, including him, felt that there was nothing to do, I could find out the problem and leave a good impression on him.

Of course, if there is still no room to do after the above thinking, then it is also a wise choice to actively change groups or even jump ship. Do not hesitate.

Finally, I want to remind you that if you go through the above steps and know what you want to do, it is very important that your goals are consistent with your boss. You need to make sure that this is also the boss's goal, and clearly tell your boss that in order to achieve your goal, you expect resources from him, and even if you achieve your goal, you expect development space from him.

Step 3: Define measurement indicators.

Determine the direction of work, then you need to know what data support is needed for promotion, what taboos are there, and what bonus items are there. According to these, the measurement index is formulated and the work is guided by the index.

For example, in terms of indicators, you may need: the number of online questions, machine resource saving data, online question recall rate and other indicators.

For example, the taboo in tool development: repeated wheel making.

For example, bonus points: publishing patents.

The fourth step: the execution is the ultimate.

After the above steps, we have found the work direction and specific measurement indicators that can support our promotion, and then we will enter the implementation link.

Having a goal and a plan is not the most difficult thing, but the most difficult thing is actually implementation.

Why?

For example, my industry is the Internet, and I can't wait to get on 10 times every day. What does this mean? This means that our workload is very heavy, and we often have to do several things at the same time, such as requirements review, technical review, testing tasks, online follow-up, online problem tracking, statistical reports and so on. The problem we often face is that none of the important things planned for the day have been completed, and most of our energy has been occupied by other sudden needs that are temporarily inserted.

In addition, because there are usually many unknown factors in technical tasks, a technical difficulty will lengthen the scheduling, so the work can often not be completed within the scheduling.

To sum up, the executive level mainly faces two problems: how to give a reliable timetable? How to finish the work within the plan?

For the first question, the solution or suggestion is to refine the task, decompose the task into multiple stages, give the scheduling in stages, instead of the scheduling of the whole task, and feedback the progress in stages, so as to reduce the risk of scheduling extension due to occasional technical difficulties.

To solve the second problem, we need to manage our time well.

In time management, there are actually two main problems: one is that there are too many things, and the other is that there are too many interruptions.

In order to solve the problem that important work can't be completed because there are too many things, I studied the four-quadrant rule and formulated my own executable thing management method according to this rule.

First, I create a new text document every week, named after time, and then the document is divided into four parts: important and urgent things, important and non-urgent things, unimportant and urgent things.

Every morning, I will review this document, make clear what I have to do at present, highlight what I have to do that day in red font and give priority to it.

For problems that disturb too much, you can use the tomato clock and concentrate on completing one thing in a tomato time period (specifically, set it yourself, such as half an hour). During the tomato clock, if there is any new demand, you can immediately record it in the four-quadrant table above, so that you can keep your concentration and prevent forgetting. This needs to be explained in detail. No matter what others ask you to do, you can say: xx will come to me later, ok? In case the work is constantly interrupted, except, of course, the boss's desperate phone call.

Earlier, I explained the solution from the difficulties I often encountered at the implementation level.

And if you want to make good achievements, another very important and core thing is to achieve the ultimate in execution.

What is the ultimate?

Let me give you an example. Many people do business monitoring and write several back-end scripts. If something goes wrong, they call the police by text message or email, and the work is over.

What should I do to pursue the ultimate?

There are many questions you need to think about, such as: how to check the alarm conveniently? How to provide enough information to trace the problem? How to reduce false positives? How to ensure timely follow-up of problems? How to reduce the cost of monitoring, upgrading and maintenance?

In order to solve the above problems, you need to do a lot of thinking and design and development work. If you can give a satisfactory answer, then you must deliver a monitoring system and methodology instead of several monitoring scripts. If this methodology can be popularized, its influence will be even greater.

This is the pursuit of the ultimate.

In fact, there are more seemingly unimportant jobs in our work, but only by doing these things to the extreme can we get the appreciation of our boss or colleagues and get more opportunities.

Step 5: The effect needs to be seen by others.

When it comes to promotion, in essence, it still depends on personal influence, that is to say, no matter how good you do, no one knows or sees it, it is useless. Therefore, you need to take the initiative to expose your work. The best way is to report the progress to the boss actively, synchronize the key progress in time, ask the boss to help you publicize it, and at the same time, synchronize the phased progress to relevant people regularly through email and other forms.

Finally, convince the judges

Many companies will have a promotion defense when they are promoted. Generally speaking, you need to prepare ppt for defense. This link is very important, because what you have done is not clear to the judge. He can only give the final conclusion from the materials you submitted, others' feedback and your on-site performance.

This link needs to solve two problems: how to prepare ppt? How to present the best effect at the defense site?

Each of these two questions is a study topic, and you can take related courses to improve your skills in this area. Here I give some ideas.

For the first question, when writing ppt, you can ask yourself the following questions for each page of ppt:

1) What is the theme I want to express on this page? Is this theme helpful for promotion? Please delete it if it is not helpful.

2) Are all the abilities needed to support the promotion expressed? If not, please supplement the materials.

3) What questions might the judges ask? Prepare to answer these questions.

4) Have you convinced yourself? Convince yourself first, then convince the judges.

5) Can the judges get their own core views? The judges have limited knowledge of you. Try to think about whether the judges can get what you want to say. If not, please modify ppt.

There is only one way to achieve good field defense effect: practice first and then defend.

For example:

Memorize the contents of the defense and the questions that may be asked in the defense.

Conduct simulation exercises before formal defense, including speech speed, movements and expressions. You can go to the defense site first, and simulate it on the spot if you can.

Record the video of simulated defense, and repeatedly scrutinize the problematic places.

Finally, adhering to the principle of "I have tried my best to express it", no matter what the result is, I will formally reply as a winner, and the effect will not be too bad. At least I will try my best to express it, which is enough.

Having said that, for rapid promotion, it is nothing more than being proactive, purposeful and planned, pursuing the ultimate in everything, and knowing how to sell yourself.

Finally, I send you a sentence, "In the workplace, we must firmly believe that there is no excellent business, only excellent people, only with strong self-drive, can go further."

In fact, life is the same, together.

Come on, believe in yourself and believe in the power of time.