It’s me, the boss: CEO as a career goal – that’s definitely something you can work towards, say coaches and job experts. Getty Images
For years and by far the most wanted job on Watchado has been: CEO. On the vocational training platform, where people talk about their everyday work in a specific profession in short videos, most visitors want to know what it’s like to be a boss. “According to analytics, we have 10,000 hits a month on ‘How do I become a CEO’,” says Jubin Honarfar, founder of Whatchado in Vienna. Second place follows with 20 percent fewer hits per month.
Bosses who have their say on Watchado are corporate bosses like Thomas Nonn, board member of the Rewe Group, who says that as a boss he doesn’t have a typical working day. But founders like Charles Bahr also report that having fun in their work is central to him. Or Frank Thelen, who says that the coolest thing about being a boss for him is “being able to build beautiful software with brilliant people.” And of course, viewers learn about the expected or surprising ways these different CEOs got into their executive chairs.
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“The easiest way to become a CEO is definitely to start your own company,” says Honarfar, who did exactly that himself. Basically, everyone is a CEO who works independently. Whether alone or with one, two or three employees. However, whether you are good as a CEO is a different question. “And anyway: What is more important – being able to lead or generating the most profits?” asks Honarfar.