Here's how you can articulate your career goals to your Cloud Computing boss effectively.

Seeking a career in cloud computing can be exhausting particularly if someone lacks the basics and fundamental knowledge that would determine people's success in this field. Making sure you have a good plan to ramp up skills as you deliver projects, and getting involved with the right people who could become mentors and assist your growth from a close view could also determine your success. Therefore, before going to your boss make sure you done a good homework that shows your commitment, dedication, determination and discipline towards what you are looking for as career growth.

For example, when I communicated my goals to my supervisor, I didn’t just say I wanted to advance; I specified my interest in becoming a Cloud Solutions Architect. This involved outlining the specific certifications and training I intended to pursue, which not only showed my commitment but also how it aligns with enhancing our team’s capabilities in deploying cloud solutions.

I have been there my entire career, in the early 2000s I had a chance to evaluate a product as a trial for a University where I was able with a friend to share our expectations, learning, and challenges and see which skills we would needed to prosper and grow in IT field. Coming from help desk agents who got into Networking (support and management) we where there validating a Firewall that could assist the entire organization and determine parts of our future on our team as we grasped what we would like to do shortly like being a Unix server administrator, Microsoft Servers and workstation administrator or Firewall administrator. At some point we had to decide if we needed to grow we needed to pick one thing to be good at.

Timing matters once you realize that you have open doors to discuss your career with people who are opened to listen and give you proper feedback based on a daily basis relationship and a constructive feedback system that allows you to self-assess and create a clear career-life plan making sure you have the support you need, the time and resources to continue to grow as you can go back to management to ask for new opportunities.

Quoting Richard Branson said, “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.” I continue to see value in his meaningful way of seeing value in people. Behind every organization whether it is public or private, government or NGO to keep its reputation, and value and have people following its vision and mission it requires mutual benefits to keep a great environment. When someone grows the company grows and the other way around, when the company grows people grow as well making this strong relationship by principles reinforce the company's commitment to those who work there, to its clients and partners.

When someone has a change to learn from the management team, no matter the position your boss has this person has one of the greatest opportunities. If we think of life as time, if we spend time we spend life, and therefore making the time to grow together helps all of us to be better, to have something to share, and in the future that will be called legacy, the part we helped to build that is now managed by someone else that has the same commitment, determination, dedication and discipline.