Hey guys and gals!
So today was my first day as “Director of Growth/CMO” – whatever that means.
A little backstory:
I've been running my own SEO contracting company that's been decently successful for a couple of years now, and I have a pretty strong background in sales before that. I like to look at job postings for high pay gigs and apply for it because I always think “Why not? Worst that's gonna happen is I'll get rejected or I'll never hear anything from them”. Fast forward to last week and I'm interviewing for what I thought was a Director of Marketing position.
I get a call back, which I'll be honest, shocked me a bit. I was blunt about my strengths and my lack of experience but my willingness to learn and fill in the gaps. Did not expect to hear anything back. Fast forward a couple of days and I'm interviewing with the whole executive team. Feel I did pretty good in the interview and really gave it the old college try, but there's no way I get it because again – lack of experience.
Fast forward to today and I'm starting, but I'm not Director of Marketing. I'm the freaking CMO. I spent literally half my day (of 9+ hours) in meetings and then familiarizing myself with software. It was a very weird day and honestly I'm not sure how I even got here.
Any advice from some executives or directors would be happily accepted, but my point of the post is this…I don't think places care about creditials as much as I thought they would, or maybe it's just this company I'm unsure. I think if you see something that you think you might not “qualify” for, just apply anyways. Who knows you might end up landing the job.
Also, it was only my first day, but it seemed like so much time was wasted talking about things that needed to be done instead of doing said things. Is that normal for this level of management? It seems redundant to me. Idk, feel like I'm rambling a bit. It's just a surreal experience to me.
Happy to answer any questions I can without telling too much as I'm unsure what's okay/not okay