HR Besties: How to Get Promoted: Career Advice Straight from HR
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- #Justice4Jerry
- Cringe corporate speak: hit the ground running
- Hot topic: how to be promoted at work: tips, tricks and career advice from HR
- The best advice we have ever received
- What does success look like to you? How will this change throughout your career?
- Thinking about what the new position entails, new hours and work-life balance
- Making yourself indispensable and how to stand out is key
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | I think we all know better than anyone that organizations mess up, right? |
| 0:12.8 | Because they're filled with people. |
| 0:15.0 | They're filled with people. |
| 0:17.0 | And so that's what being humans about. Fucking up. |
| 0:22.6 | Organizations, companies, they're messy, right? |
| 0:25.5 | Because they are filled with human beings. |
| 0:27.5 | But let me share with you all something |
| 0:30.0 | that someone, a friend of mine, shared with me |
| 0:33.1 | that happened at their annual huge award gala, right? So this friend, every year, they have to |
| 0:43.0 | drag themselves, as does the rest of the organization, to some big global annual, you know, |
| 0:49.9 | awards night, leadership thing, whatever, right? |
| 1:01.5 | And it's great having, you know, the entire company together and everyone's patting themselves on the back and they're celebrating people, which is the right thing to do, right? |
| 1:06.2 | You want to celebrate people and highlight people and, you know, you talk about just key accomplishments. |
| 1:13.7 | Maybe you talk a little bit about the next year, too, right? I mean, but so that cohesiveness |
| 1:17.5 | is fantastic. So every year they go to this thing, and they were sharing that a couple of years |
| 1:23.0 | ago, they went, and the company had been doing layoffs throughout the year. |
| 1:29.8 | So they even assumed it wasn't even going to happen, you know? |
| 1:33.1 | Like, why spend money on that big event? |
| 1:35.1 | Exactly. |
| 1:36.3 | And all that team building, when the teams kind of deflated and, oh, gosh, they could have saved |
| 1:40.6 | thousands of jobs, right, instead of having a big shindig in some other city |
| 1:46.5 | and all that travel expense and whatnot. But anyway, they did end up putting it on. And, you know, |
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