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Re:I feel like I need to out myself for promotions and to be... by throwarayes on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:36PM (#26655260)
I want to challenge your assumptions. I work at a place where last year 2/3s of all candidates had to be a disadvantaged group. But I, a white dude, never felt held back in my career possibilities. It might take a bit more effort, but I still feel like I have as much opportunity as I can sink time into.

This could have more to do with how you've been tackling the problem or a bad work environment only doing diversity for diversity sake

What actions are you considering/have you tried outside of outing yourself? Some things to try:

- Build skills in a specialty that you're interested in. Maybe you're great at optimizing native code? Or really great at certain frontend stacks? Or have demonstrated a lot of leadership and mentoring of junior devs? Whatever the projects you want, focus on building street-cred in this area and seen as an authority.

- Build street cred _outside the company_: blog, speak, do open source, etc in that specialization to build your brand. Share what you create liberally internally and externally. If you're a public enough presence in the tech space, you'll stop being spammed by recruiters. Instead you'll be contacted by technology leaders (internally/externally) with specific opportunities.

- Just switch jobs... Control your destiny and just find another place to work that seems more likely to give you the opportunities you want.

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