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Stop Working Above Your Title
How Being a Team Player is Hurting Your Career
We have all pitched in when needed. We have all burned the candle at both ends to meet a tight deadline. This is not that conversation.
In this era of anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) where all discussions of our otherness is used against us, finding information from the usual reliable sources is even difficult, intentionally. . As a woman who began her tech career in the late 1990s, this is infuriating.
For Black and Hispanic women, the numbers are even lower and I fear will plummet with efforts to recruit and support disappearing daily.
What’s At Issue?
Picture this: you’ve started your career eager and ready to plunge in and make an impression. Your boss (or other leader) asks you to “pitch in” and help because a colleague or maybe even a superior has moved on and now that work is left incomplete. It’s important work and will “increase your visibility.” This is just the opportunity you need. Or is it?
Surprise, surprise…it’s a trap. And, this doesn’t just apply to women or minorities, although it mostly happens to those particular…
