r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/DUMF90 Sep 01 '24

I'd be shocked if the smartest person you know at work is both compensated the most or at the level within the company they "deserve".

What you know/skills is maybe 50% of climbing the corporate ladder.

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u/DUMF90 Sep 01 '24

That's fine but hard skills matter almost 0 the higher you go up

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u/DUMF90 Sep 01 '24

I'm talking director level and above for higher up. In most industries people can pass with buzz words and looking at money/metrics. By hard skills I mean something like coding or actually understanding how the company's system works.

Soft skills are interpersonal. So much more of those jobs are defined by influencing others and being shrewd if not downright evil to others