I joined this place to further my career, not to become a number that's completely ignored. Does Open Text even care about improving its workforce and keeping it around or not? If the answer is no, then it's time for me to start looking for something else, even if it's only been less than 2 years.
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@147 , it doesn't depends on the manager you get. Some will help you and some will just exploit you. I had a mgr that noticed I was underpaid at HP and helped change my job grade. He also encouraged me to go for the leadership program.
Then I have mgrs at Micro Focus and Opentext fighting for survival and have no time to build or encourage the team.
In a way, I see the original poster's point.
My first promotion came in year three. The manager I had at the time offered to help me find the internal opportunities to work towards the next step and offered two potential paths to follow. That manager has moved on and the next one basically told me that I am at a cul-de-sac now.
Whether I am happy at OT or not is moot, I do my job as best as I can because that's just how I do things. But to be told that there is nowhere to go from here, that didn't change my work ethic; it made me start looking for a new job. Now if that could only materialize...
@OP you need to invest in yourself and grow up. No one is obligated to invest in you and OT in particular is not a place you’ll find leadership who invest in anymore on merit. Learn the art of staying teflon and sycophancy and you’ll get ahead. This isn’t a place to grow. It’s a place to survive. That’s it.
Of course...oT cares about improving workforce....we are All getting copilot premium....haven't you heard!!! It's new silver bullet to increasing stock prices...AI in products...AI in operations.....don't worry about what you do with AI. Just pepper the word AI and you be end up with a promotion....bo-m! You are welcome!!!
@OP, I would have thought in almost 2 years time, you would have read the room that OT do not invest in products or employees. It's all about cutting costs.
In this thread are old school.folks. you will realize OT so full of them. They don't know what a manager means in this day and age. They don't know the concept of "player-coach" . All they know is to play politics , optimize for optics and then, severely curtail communications and survive by causing confusion and then, blaming their reporters for not getting work done on time
It's not your manager's job to further your career...that's YOUR job.
Get out of the mindset that you are owed hand-holding, special concessions, or a leg up.
No one owes you sh!t, and the world doesn't care if you fail or succeed.
Harsh, but true.
So advocate for yourself, be proactive about learning new skills (even via YT tutorials, then add it on to your resume) then let people know about what you've learned, connect with other "higher-ups" at work besides your boss, so they get to know you and may think about you for future projects, talk with people about how you'd be excited to be a part of whatever they're working on, etc.
Build your own relationships and career, and be confident in your ability to do so.
No one else is going to do it for you, nor should they be expected to!
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GTFO my friend