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Dear SaaStr: What Has Been Your Biggest Career Mistake?

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Dear SaaStr: What Has Been Your Biggest Career Mistake? The post Dear SaaStr: What Has Been Your Biggest Career Mistake? Maybe not slowing down just a little bit. The week in my first real professional job when I realized I’d been there long enough and had nothing left to learn … I walked in and quit that day on the spot.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Way I Can Accelerate My Career Growth?

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Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Way I Can Accelerate My Career Growth? The best career accelerator I ever got was working for a few great bosses. The post Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Way I Can Accelerate My Career Growth? And work for them for a while. Long enough to get promoted once, ideally twice. Ideally 3-4 years. Great Bosses.

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The #1 Way to Accelerate Your Career Growth

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Everyone of us that are hyper-driven wants to grow our careers faster. The best career accelerator I ever got was working for a few great bosses. The post The #1 Way to Accelerate Your Career Growth appeared first on SaaStr. We’re impatient. We want to learn, grow, manage more, earlier. Let me share my best hack.

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When an Investor Puts Their Career On The Line For You

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Because I think most — not all, but most — founders aren’t grateful to VCs in one specific scenario: When the VC Puts Their Career at Risk for You — And Doesn’t Have To. It wasn’t good for my career, and too much risk to take. It had to work, or my career would have been at risk. It’s now worth $10B and is a rocketship.

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5 Tips to Advance Your Career as a Technical Recruiter

Modern recruiters must commit to actively adapting and advancing their hiring strategies to advance their careers by attracting top candidates in a competitive landscape. This step-by-step guide is designed to provide technical recruiters with tips and tricks to achieve tangible results that accelerate their recruiting efforts—and career.

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Six Principles to Optimize Your Results and Your Career (Presentation Slides)

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Just a quick post to share the slides of a presentation I recently gave on six principles that can help you optimize both your results and your career. Not answering questions wastes time, frustrates coworkers and executives, and can stall your career. The six principles are: Answer the effing question (ATFQ).

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The 7 Best Pieces of Career Advice I Was Given

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The earlier in your career you can learn how to manage people, the faster you can excel in learning to scale. You will interview 100s and then 1000s of folks over your career, and hire many very good, pretty good, OK and less-than-great folks. The post The 7 Best Pieces of Career Advice I Was Given appeared first on SaaStr.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details. Advanced search: Narrow the search to find candidates using specialized filters like education, and current company technologies.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers. And have you ever had your boss tell you to just “make those goals happen,” even in the absence of any clear plan that might allow you to do just that? In fact, some of us may actually face it every single year!