So Your Sales Manager is Younger Than You…

Used to be, seniority counted.  For a lot.  It was an orderly progression up the career ladder, many times within a single company, and if you were priceless at your position, you’d likely get your turn in management.  Not anymore.  For one thing, career paths aren’t what they once were–it’s more common to not only job-hop, but to career-hop.  In addition, technology is advancing exponentially, and the one with the latest knowledge is going to have the jump on promotions.  None of this is big news.  However, because of all this flux, many older workers are finding themselves working for a manager/supervisor/boss who is younger than they are, and not all of them deal with that very well, and it can be a major stumbling block for older career opportunity candidates. 

Here’s a great article (Help! Save My Career!  My New Boss is Just a Kid!) that offers some really nice advice for someone in that situation, including ways to job yourself for a promotion.   Of course, the main point is “Get over yourself!”, which I whole-heartedly agree with.  Don’t think some young whippersnapper can’t teach you a thing or 2 just because you’ve a lot of experience.  There’s a reason that young person got the career opportunity.  Find out what it is and see what you can learn from it, so that you can advance your career, too.

Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally
recognized medical and pharmaceutical sales recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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So Your Sales Manager is Younger Than You…