Not all projects in your company have the same level of importance.

Some are highly significant — the person handling them gets noticed, receives appreciation from clients, generates revenue for the company, and so on.

Some are moderately important — a few people might notice, someone may say “thank you,” and so forth.

And some are not important at all — no one sees them, no one expresses gratitude, and so on.

My previous strategy was to excel at whatever task was assigned to me. I would wait for my manager to give me work and then strive to complete it perfectly. I believed, “If I work well, I should be rewarded.” But this was the wrong strategy. No matter how well I performed, if I worked on less important projects, the impact of my work remained unnoticed.

Waiting for my manager to assign tasks started to feel like handing over control of my career to someone else. That, of course, was a mistake. I should be the one managing my career growth.

So, I switched to a different strategy.

I carefully analyzed our team's work and identified the most crucial projects. Once I finished my current tasks, I started requesting to be assigned these high-impact projects.

As a result, the impact of my work became noticeable, leading to several promotions.

For this strategy to work, your manager must trust you. And to gain that trust, at the start of your career, you must execute even the most boring and seemingly unimportant tasks at a high level.

©️ Jahongir Rahmonov