hey guys Serg here today we're gonna be talking about should you make a lateral
move hey guys ECR G here today we're gonna be talking
about should you make a lateral move and of course we're talking about maybe
you're in a section of your department and you want to eventually move up a
long day you know one day in the long term and should you maybe move to
another department get some more experience you know a lateral move
you're not moving up you're moving to the side to get some more experience
which can eventually propel you even higher in the long run so should you
make a lateral move there differing degrees of thought on this on where some
people believe that no you should just double down on your position and only do
promotions because there you get a different set of experience you get
better at your job and you're actually getting more money where there's another
side of the coin that says hey your career could take you anywhere and
everywhere maybe you would take a lateral move now you may not be getting
any more money but you may give some more experience will this help you get
to where you want to go either faster or will it take you higher than the current
trajectory you were on currently in the long run so there are different things
you gotta weigh here with what do you want to why you want to take this
lateral move are you leaving your current position because you hate your
job or because you don't like your job anymore you hate coming into work you
hate the people you work with so you want to make a lateral move to another
department well in that case you probably should make a lateral move are
you making a lateral move because you think you're gonna make more money in
the short term maybe maybe you are a that's something you you should consider
if you really need the money what I would say is you really want to break it
down and think about the long-term goal of your career and you know long term
could be anywhere from 5 to 10 years even 20 years
this going to help me or whatever your main goal is in life is this going to
help me so of course we're gonna look at this to the perspective of clinical
research so if I'm an entry-level employee and I want let's say I want to
get to a CRA position let's say I want to be a clinical research associate and
I'm an entry-level person I'm either a CT a clinical trial assistant or you
know Project Coordinator or something along those lines you're in the
entry-level position but you want to get to CRA so should I make a lateral move
to say an in-house CRA or whatever that lateral move is let's say you're in
clinical you move over to project management let's say you're in project
management you move over to clinical should I make that lateral move to get
to where I want to be we're saying CRA well you've got to look at the long term
and how your company is structured some companies are structured where whether
you're in clinical or in project management you have the same chance to
get to CRA so let's say a position comes up for the other department and you are
interested in taking it but you want to know if you should take it well if you
have the same chance of getting to the CRA position from the your current
position you probably shouldn't because there are other factors that are gonna
be working against you one you're gonna have to impress your manager they're
gonna have to sign off on you becoming that CRA so that's that's gonna be a
whole new process that's gonna be many months later we're in your current
position you probably already got an approval from your manager your manager
knows your work style your work ethic and you are comfortable with where you
are so as soon as the position opens you're able to apply but if you move
even though you would be gaining more experience you would have a different
level of experience but you still have to gain your managers approval and to
move into that position so it can work as a downside but let's say the
positions don't open up until a year from now so you have plenty of time
or six months from now so you have plenty of time to gain your marriages
approval and then the upside is now you have more experience than any person
who's applying from either the project management side or the clinical
operations side so now you have both sets of experience so you have a leg up
on everybody well in that case you should definitely take the lateral move
because for your goal it's gonna improve your chances of reaching your goal so
that's how you really want to look at it your lateral move is it going to improve
your chances of reaching your goal now if your goal is to move and make more
money let's say they make more money in project management you want to go from
the entry-level clinical clinical operations job either CTA or whatever
you go over a project management they make a little bit more money well your
goal was to make more money so you definitely should do that now it may
hurt your long time your long term goal because you're moving away from clinical
if you want to be a CRA you're moving away from clinical but you want to make
a little bit more money in the project management side of things fine now other
things they try and do when you're making a lateral move is the lateral
move typically means a lateral move they're literally picking you up and
putting you over there there's not gonna be much change now that's what they say
but anytime you're getting a new job there's always time that there's always
time to negotiate depending on how much they need you of course so if there's a
strong need in a department they're gonna be much more likely to negotiate
with you but if there's not a really big need then they're they're not really
gonna negotiate with you as much so you want to keep that into account when
you're making lateral moves is there a huge need are they begging for people to
come over then you have the leverage in that situation so you can make it work
for your benefit you can get the experience and the pay raise which is
important so all in all when you're looking at assessing a lateral move you
really want to take into account what your goal is your main goal your
long-term goal your short-term goal is it gonna help me get there faster or
easier than my current position or do I just want to change you know
maybe maybe your goal is you just want to learn as much as possible so you can
eventually be the CEO one day you know you have to progress up the ladder but
you also have to learn a lot in different departments so that's your
goal and everyone's goal is gonna be different of course but making that
lateral move is definitely beneficial now if you ask any person who's made it
high up the food chain they're probably gonna tell you they've made tons of
lateral moves in their career they've made they made moves where they you know
they go up they they get promoted they made moves where they go to the side
they make moves where they go backwards no one's career trajectory is just a
straight line up right people go all around they go to the side they go up
they go back it just depends and those those who are strong and are able to
withstand that you know are ones that really make it to the top so lateral
moves aren't particularly bad and you definitely want to make sure that there
are a few positives out of it you definitely want to make that lateral
move if they're a bunch of negatives so that's something to keep in mind that's
something that you want to take into account when thinking about lateral
moves obviously when you're thinking about promotions there are a lot more
pros that are going to convince you to take that promotion and rather than a
lateral move one being money you're definitely gonna have more money when
you're thinking about a promotion so that's it for today's video guys let me
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