Cheryl Marquez

Digital Marketing Can Be Hard, It Doesn&s;t Need to Be After the excitement of a new job wears off and you embark on new projects, you have to figure out what processes to follow and how to use new systems. For me the easiest part is figuring out the system and the hardest part is learning how people prefer to work within defined processes. At the end of my second week of work, I was covering for my teammate while she was on vacation. During the handoff meeting everything sounded pretty straightforward. During a 1:1 with my manager, I mentioned I was going to cover completing the updates to a landing page and she said, how will you do that when you havent started training in the content management system (CMS)? Oh damn, she was right, I havent done one thing in the system. A cold vise gripped my heart when I realized, I was so new, I didnt know what questions to ask. While part of me was afraid I didnt know how to do my new job, there was a little voice inside that said, youre good at learning new systems, it will eventually fall into place. Fortunately, in my notes, my teammate who is super amazing, suggested that I work with our project manager to create the new components and have her walk me through making the updates required. As I worked on the updates, I was hit with imposter syndrome because it took much longer than I expected, mainly because I was new to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Part of my learning was that each component needed to be activated separately to be visible on the page. Instead of beating myself up for not knowing what I didnt know, I messaged teammates to ask how they did things and asked for feedback to review my work before sending it outside our team for approvals. When imposter syndrome hits you have the choice to go down the rabbit hole of running through the Im not good enough scenarios or you can read documentation and ask questions to learn how to get things done. Reframe the trigger that caused you to feel like youre less than capable and ask questions. Ask yourself, have I ...