The JoVE team is full of passionate, innovative people who are constantly working to make our resources even more valuable and essential for the scientific community. That’s why we’ve always begun team-building efforts from within and why we’re now proud to present our official JoVE Career Path Guide.
When I was first interviewing at JoVE in 2012, the CEO, Moshe Pritsker, said to me “here at JoVE, we like to promote from within”.
As a Human Resource professional, I am very proud that JoVE is a place where employees can advance and grow their careers, both within, and between departments.
In my three and half years with JoVE, I have assisted in the promotion of over 40 employees and helped over 20 employees transition to new careers within the company.
I have been quite impressed watching these individuals grow to become even stronger contributors to the company. One employee started with JoVE as an entry level employee, made a lateral transition to a different department, and now bears the title of Director of Operations, a new position with the company. He will now begin a new voyage building a team of champions.
I must admit that not all promotions are successful, but here at JoVE our philosophy is to find solutions to issues, rather than dwell on them. I recognized that instead of staying up at night wondering what happened to those employees who didn’t succeed, I needed to motivate our current and new employees and continue JoVE’s legacy of growing promising people. I decided that my first step would be to launch a Career Path Guide, outlining the ways that our best employees have found success at JoVE.
The JoVE Journey:
Entry Employee
- Learn about the company and its products
- Succeed in your role, hit targets
- Become a top-performer
Senior employee
- Exceed your goals
- Be a role model to others
- Suggest new initiatives to improve company operations
- Coach junior members of your team to become top performers
Manager
- Manage and grow your own team to be the best
- Improve performance and operations within your department
- Initiate and execute projects
- Make a significant impact on the company growth
Director
- Set and exceed goals
- Retain and grow a strong performing team
- Innovate and offer your ideas to C-Level Executives
- Effectively manage the day-to-day business operations
Chief/VP
- Drive continuous company growth
- Create and execute business plans that support the company’s mission
- Offer your vision for new strategic directions
- Be a role model for people in the company
We felt it would be motivating to showcase a few people’s successes, both here, and in this career guide. These are some of the members of our team who took the initiative to work hard, grow, continue to succeed in their roles, and go above and beyond their stated goals.
When asked how he achieved his success at JoVE, Steve Altieri, our Director of Sales in the Americas said simply, “I aimed to achieve at a higher level than what was expected of me.”
We close the guide with tips that would help our people climb! Overall the focus of this career path is to empower new and current employees to navigate their own personal career with us. This guide helps people to understand our culture, the opportunities we offer, and what is needed of them if they want to continue or begin a successful career with us.
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