How to Make Your Career Move

A career isn't what it used to be. Who has a job for life anymore? Who would want one anyway? Playing the new career game means learning new rules and making tough decisions. Should I take a job that pays less because it means more? Should I take a job I don't like to get skills I need? How do I know when it's time to go? We asked 14 business leaders, all with undeniably intriguing careers, to offer hands-on advice for moving ahead. Patty Stonesifer, once the highest-ranking woman at Microsoft, explains why following her heart meant leaving her job. Bill Haber, cofounder of Creative Artists Agency, describes how to stay put without staying in place. Superagent Leigh Steinberg offers five tips for cutting a great deal. Read these contributions and create your own game plan.

Patty Stonesifer
President and Chairman
Gates Library Foundation
Redmond, Washington

I left a great job as head of interactive media at Microsoft for one reason: the passion was gone. My pocketbook, ego, and sense of excitement were being satisfied, but I no longer had passion for the challenges I faced each day. Lots of people thought I was crazy to walk away from it all. But I felt like a juggler -- managing projects, budgets, and people -- whose only mission was not to drop the ball. Eventually I found my dream job. It aligns my personal expertise and goals with an opportunity to put technology in the hands of people who otherwise wouldn't have access to it. No matter how high your career registers on the conventional charts, you've got to listen to your heart

At Microsoft, Patty Stonesifer built the world's leading consumer CD-ROM business and managed the company's investments in online content and services.

William Raduchel
Vice President of Corporate Planning and Development, and CIO
Sun Microsystems
Palo Alto, California
bill.raduchel @ corp.sun.com

Don't pick a job. Pick a boss. Your first boss is probably the biggest factor in your career success. A boss who doesn't trust you won't give you opportunities to grow. A boss who's too easy on you won't drive you to improve. When you accept your first job, you're hiring a tutor to teach you about work. Be sure to hire wisely.

My first boss (when I was a 16-year-old theater doorman) taught me the basics of work: be honest. She hired new doormen at 45 cents an hour. But she'd always calculate their first paycheck at 50 cents an hour. If you reported the "error," you kept the job and stayed at 50 cents. If you didn't, you lost the job.

Over time, the most important skill for advancing your career is learning how to work to an agenda rather than to a schedule. A successful business person always kills more than one bird with one stone.

Figure out what needs to happen, then find ways to make it happen. A 30-second elevator exchange can be as productive as a one-hour meeting, but only if you know in advance what you need from the encounter.

William Raduchel's career has included senior positions at Sun, Xerox, and McGraw-Hill.


Fay Vincent
Founder, Vincent Enterprises
Stamford, Connecticut

I've always based my career decisions on the quality of the people I'd be working with. At age 40, I was offered the job of president and CEO of Columbia Pictures, a troubled studio. I was making $47,500 a year as a lawyer with the Securities and Exchange Commission. I knew nothing about business, disliked the movies, and occasionally wore brown shoes with a blue suit. I was not exactly Hollywood material. Why did I say yes? How could I say no? Herbert Allen, Columbia's major shareholder, had confidence in my abilities -- which was a huge motivator. It turned out to be the critical decision of my professional life.

Years later I made another major career decision, based largely on the esteem I had for the man offering me the job: Bart Giamatti. He asked me to become his deputy commissioner of baseball . When he died five months later, I became commissioner -- despite my friends' advice against it. I took the job largely to carry out the plans Bart and I had developed. Things did not work out as hoped, but I have no regrets about my decision, and the brief period we had to work together was magical.

A few other thoughts: be realistic about your talents and the character of the people hiring you. Be clear about the consequences of failure. And be diligent in assessing the help you'll need. If you increase the odds of success, you'll create the confidence to make big leaps.

Fay Vincent served as the eighth commissioner of major league baseball.

Patrick Naughton
President and CTO
Starwave
Bellevue, Washington
naughton @ starwave.com 

Source : Fast Company

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