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Woman explains how she managed to up her salary by £110,000 in just four years

Woman explains how she managed to up her salary by £110,000 in just four years

Charlotte Chaze works at Break Into Tech which aims to teach others how to land their 'dream' job

Rather than a dodgy 'get-rich-quick scheme', a woman has revealed a sound way she managed to increase her salary from $28,000 (£24,000) to $158,000 (£137,000) in under four years. Watch below:

Before Charlotte Chaze (@charlottechaze) earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, she actually worked in the 'basement' of a small research lab.

“I was working long hours, the job wasn’t very rewarding, and obviously, the pay wasn’t very great,” Charlotte said.

She decided to take a bit of a risk and apply for jobs that she wasn't fully qualified for.

Her logic was that if she could manage to work in a role which was manageable, she would use the learn-as-you-go approach.

“In 2018, I decided I’d had enough and started looking for jobs, even ones I wasn’t qualified for, and I ended up landing one of those – a data analytics associate at a consulting company,” she added.

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After managing to take on a new $70k-a-year role (£61k), Charlotte opted to try the same method again.

She said: "I again applied for jobs I wasn’t qualified for and ended up landing a job as a data analyst at Comcast. This job paid $90,000 (£78,000) and the reason I got it was because I taught myself [Structured Query Language] over a matter of a couple weeks using a website called Khan Academy.

"During the interview process, I talked to them about the SQL projects I had done and they ended up offering me the position."

Before she knew it, just 18 months on, she was promoted to analyst manager and was earning a whopping $104,000 (£90,000) a year.

It gets better - one year after getting the promotion, she managed to secure a job at AT&T where she claims she was earning an eye-watering $158,000 (£137,000).

@charlottechaze/TikTok

“A recruiter from AT&T reached out to me about a job that would pay $158,000,” she said.

“I went through the interview process and eventually got the offer in December 2021. This is all because I put myself out there and applied to jobs that I didn’t really feel like I was qualified for, but knew I could handle.

“And most importantly, I taught myself data analytics online.”

She concluded: “Any experience you have can be relevant experience. [You have to just] reframe your perspective.

“Almost anyone can break in; all you have to do is try to teach yourself the skills online. You can even do that for free.

“So many people I worked with don’t have degrees, don’t have previous experience in tech roles. They taught themselves the skills and broke in just like I did.”

Charlotte now runs a company named Break Into Tech which aims to help people get their dream role.

You can find out more about her free course in data analytics here.

Featured Image Credit: @charlottechaze/TikTok

Topics: TikTok, Money