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		twic on May 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior De... A previous employer of mine established promotion guidelines based on the scope of someone's impact - individual, team, department, company, industry. But they never specified the direction of the impact.

chrsjxn on May 8, 2023 [–]

There are so many ways for "impact" to go wrong during promotions and performance reviews.

I think my favorite were projects that just didn't have any metrics. Or that claimed to have metrics, but somehow they were never shared...

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