Will this stop me climing the work ladder

sashafierce

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_Brian

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Its usually the case that when you are bored and unchallenged there are two options, move up or move sideways.

Sideways is often the lazy route for a change as its usually easy to get a post equal to your own based on experience..

To move upwards is more work, effort and strategic planning as you need to get your ass out of your comfort zone and go beyond the norm. Until you start fdoing this how will you ever move upwards, you need to prove your capable of moving on, if you continue with sidewards moves you're not proving it.

Stheno

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Its usually the case that when you are bored and unchallenged there are two options, move up or move sideways.

Sideways is often the lazy route for a change as its usually easy to get a post equal to your own based on experience..

To move upwards is more work, effort and strategic planning as you need to get your ass out of your comfort zone and go beyond the norm. Until you start fdoing this how will you ever move upwards, you need to prove your capable of moving on, if you continue with sidewards moves you're not proving it.

Agree 100% with this post, to move up you have to challenge yourself and gain extra skills and experience to enable you to make the step up.

Just swapping about to a new area won't do much for you tbh.

sashafierce

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mahoganygas

Without meaning any offence to you, I would bin a CV with that many moves. I would be reluctant to spend time and money training a new hire, knowing that they will be gone in a year.

Are any of the moves internal in the same company? That would look slightly better in my eyes.

My advice would be to find an area that you know you will enjoy (mortgages). Join in a junior position and work your ass off to get promoted. You are clearly ambitious. Make it known to your manager that in x amount of time you want to move up to the next level. Ask them what targets you need to hit for that to happen.

Part of climbing the ladder is dealing with the slog in a difficult role. Prove to managers that you are committed to the company, and are willing to do the boring stuff well before taking on the more interesting managerial work.

Best of luck with it.

Diziet

If you can show clear achievements and growth with all these moves, then it's not that bad. But it has to be a career, with real professional growth for you, rather than a succession of junior posts.

sashafierce

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mahoganygas

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Ah I see, apologies. 3 different roles by the time you're 30 is certainly not unusual.

It sounds like you need a challenge and you're not really getting that where you are.

Financial services will bore the pants off most people. There's a reason accountants etc are the butt of all the jokes about boring people.
Are you sure this is the industry you want to work in?

If money wasn't an issue, what would be the ideal job to get you out of the bed in the morning?

People are often married to their degree or qualification. They wouldn't dream of working in somewhere other than business or teaching or engineering etc.

sashafierce

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mahoganygas

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Fund admin at graduate level can be incredibly mundane. It feels like you're working on a factory production line, doing the same task over an over.
It's not until you have a few years under your belt that you get exposure to more complex funds.

Is it worth talking to your boss? Tell them you feel that you're more than competent on the current tasks. Ask them to consider you for new training or projects.
Better yet, research a couple of other fund types on your client and find something that interests you. Then tell you always wanted to work on incentive fees, audit, etc.

Graduates are often forgotten about until they hand in their notice. Then its a scramble to hold onto them and figure out why they're bored/unhappy. Maybe try to pre-empt that and give them a heads up.

sashafierce

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