Career Analysis: Quantitative
I am grit.
Career Snapshot
• 26 positions held overall since college
• Contract: 10, FT: 7, PT: 4, Freelance: 5, Internship: 1
• 6 promotions (23%): 2 to full-time; 1 managerial, and 3 director level, with 2 pay raises
• 13 years of post-college employment at a rate of 2 paid jobs per year (omitting 38 volunteer roles during that same time frame; approximately 3 volunteer roles per year)
Job Loss Analysis
• Layoff/position eliminated: 7x; approximately 30% of offers resulted in job loss despite promotions and pay raises
• Laid off: 5x (19%) -- laid off less than 1/5 of the time -- 81% job retention rate
• Position eliminated: 2x (7%); 100% due to cost reasons and all instances were following a promotion
• Resignation: 4x (15%) -- bit.ly/toxicmgmt
Company Analysis (includes companies in more than one category)
• E-commerce: 9 or about 35% of companies
• Software as a Service (SaaS): 7 or about 27% of companies
• Digital media: 5 or 19% of companies
• Social networks: 4 or 15% of companies
• 5/31 or 19% of companies were corporations and Fortune 500 businesses, the remaining 79% were startups
Role Capacity
• 10+ years in the startup ecosystem
• 4yrs + 6 months in enterprise
• 3yrs + 9 months in SaaS
• 10yrs + 1 month in social media
• 9yrs + 1 month in e-commerce
• 8yrs + 8 months in community
• 6yrs + 5 months in influencer outreach
• 4yrs + 9 months in retail
• 4yrs in events
• 3yrs + 5 months in product development
• 2yrs + 1 month in B2B
• 8yrs in B2C
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Observations:
- I'd been laid off far less than I felt I'd been.
- I'd worked for more SaaS companies than I'd fully taken stock of.
- 3/7 or 85% of instances of total job loss were due to toxic management
- I hold 10x the amount of volunteer experience than the average LinkedIn candidate.
When it comes to instances of job loss, the main theme is undermining.
As someone who’s focused on improving women’s rights, there are far more women who’re responsible for my being harassed or let go than I’d like to admit yet there it is.
When on teams with lesser means and comprised of those who're not marketing savvy, my position will likely be eliminated due to cost only to be refilled with a candidate who's both more familiar or presumably cheaper.
However, if I’m around funded teams of so-called peers then (strangely) I've been sabotaged and my work was confiscated and misappropriated.
Otherwise, it's smooth sailing so long as I'm paid a living wage and management isn't toxic.
Despite this, I remain resilient and now possess a great deal of character, maturity, insight, and objectivity.
My most valuable, hit-you-over-the-head trait is grit which studies say is everything: https://lnkd.in/gapzrds8
