Jennifer Dulski has made many unconventional profession selections. She is the founder and CEO of Rising Workforce and a administration lecturer at Stanford Graduate Faculty of Enterprise. In 1999, she started her profession with a advertising and marketing job at Yahoo proper after incomes her MBA. Though the job paid solely half as a lot as her different presents, she selected it as a result of she needed to work in each expertise and enterprise.
“Most of my friends didn’t perceive my choice on the time, however I used to be excited to start out in tech,” Dulski advised Enterprise Insider, additionally noting how demotions helped form her profession for the higher.
“The primary got here after I selected the job at Yahoo, and the second got here throughout my time at Yahoo. I made a decision I needed to switch right into a normal administration position, and after I made that transfer, I took a demotion,” Dulski advised the publication. “Folks checked out me and stated, ‘what are you doing?’ However I knew I needed to attempt to run a enterprise, and there was just one position open, which occurred to be two ranges beneath the job I had in advertising and marketing. We compromised within the center, so I solely took one stage of demotion. That was an important transfer for me — it set my profession on a unique path. I ended up being promoted. And in round 18 months, they gave me six companies to run.”
After almost 9 years at Yahoo, Dulski left her senior government position to affix a small startup known as Dealmap, a call that many individuals questioned.
“We ended up promoting Dealmap to Google, the place I made a decision to remain. And two years later, I left that a lot higher-paying Google job to turn into president and CEO of Change.org, a petition web site, earlier than working teams and communities for just a few years at Fb,” she advised Enterprise Insider.
After 25 years in management roles at Yahoo, Google, and Fb, Dulski began her personal firm, Rising Workforce.
“I’ve taken what I contemplate the sudden or much less apparent profession choice at many factors alongside the street. In 2020 I began my very own firm, which feels just like the fruits of my profession,” she stated.
