Be Proactive
All employees do their job according to their job description. Anything outside of it is simply “not their job”. A company offers a lot of opportunity for its employees, but not all opportunities are obvious. One has to step “out of the box” to recognize all available options to grow and move up. Join conferences related to your industry and establish new contacts. Avail of trainings and workshops to gain new skills or update yourself on new technologies. Gain more experience, talk to more people, do not limit yourself to your job description. Be proactive, and create the opportunities that would have not been available to you.
Source: Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey