I don’t have an established career and have never had a well paid job. I got a 2.1 BSc degree with an industrial placement but it didn’t improve my prospects much and I've only worked three ‘low skilled' junior roles in FS despite trying hard to prove my worth.
I've done hundreds of tailored applications,
followed advice from MN posters, got a work
mentor, internal career coaching. It still hasn't
lead to a 'good' job with prospects yet.
Meanwhile my peers have found career paths and out-earn me.
I dream of working for somewhere I can
actually be rewarded for performance and
progress to better pay within one to two years
(always had strong performance reviews). I
feel there is little progression in my current
role and company - no one from the team has
been promoted in past four years. Manager
won't let me do a secondment or apply for
funding to study for additional qualifications either due to heavy workload. (Isn't that a
management issue if we're lacking sufficient
resource?). I don’t even get a monthly 1to1 to discuss development as she regularly cancels them because we’re busy.
I most recently got a job offer but it's still just
a junior low skilled role (‘Banking operations analyst’). How do I ensure it won’t just be another dead end junior role for me? At interview stage I asked hiring manager when they joined and about different roles/promotions they’ve done. In same time I’ve been at my own company, they were promoted twice but that still doesn’t guarantee I will be as lucky as them.
How do I know whether a role is actually worth taking and has prospects
From my job hunting experience I get rejected from better roles with prospects due to not having enough related experience - but how do I get that first worthy experience