I’m always the one reaching out to people on LinkedIn, but today someone reached out to me. It was like a younger me, same degree & all.

They reached out for advice and although it was awkward for me because I’m looking for opps myself and I’m haven’t (IMO) reached a level to feel comfy giving advice I still did, paragraphs and all + offered to do a call.

Post not to brag but to challenge SDs, GSD, CDs, GCDs & ECDs.. how are you making yourself accessible today?

Be an inspiration today. ✊🏾

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Love that you gave them advice even though you felt awkward about it!

I’ve learned it may be more helpful for people to reach out to someone who isn’t in a management or significantly older than they are.

Management can be intimidating and depending on how long they’ve been in their position, their advice might be outdated.

Talking to someone only slightly older or further along means the advice is probably more relevant because it’s more recent.

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Thank you! Did what I could. I think they thought I’d be fairly accessible to reach

So I understand it from their perspective!

Also sometimes leadership has gone thru so much more so they’d be jaded vs someone who hasn’t been through the many years of the industry

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