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What's a good way to get promoted at a job?

Be indispensable, network, keep your resume up to date, and actively seek better job opportunities. Your best chance for a promotion is to accept a higher paying job elsewhere, and if you are indispensable at your current place of work that job offer being extended from elsewhere is the kick in their pants that your current employer needs to promote you to convince you to stay.

2 months got my first raise. A dollar. Then within 6 months another dollar. Then within a year another dollar. It pays my bills

Oh. Work very hard. Even if you think no one is watching. Avoid shortcuts. Give it your all tc :)

S_A_S posted...

What's a good way to get promoted at a job?

Learn all you can and then get a job elsewhere. Seriously staying at one company doesnt end up giving you big promotions and/or salary increases. Make sure you make lots of connections, you never know when one could help you get a job elsewhere.

My husband is leaving a job because he got one a couple levels higher and a lot of money elsewhere.

His current boss asked him what they could do to get him to stay and he was like, nah, Im good.

Ive been at my current place since August 2022. In that time Ive had 3 promotions and each one has come with a significant pay bump. The most recent one was a few weeks ago.

I think it comes form a combination of achieving results, being flexible and supporting those who struggle to be better, rather than just blaming them.

Every organisation is different though.

I got promoted two years ago. My previous boss taught me a phrase: Executive Presence.

It means to put yourself in positions to be noticed by leadership so they think of you when promotion opportunities come up. This doesn't mean brown-nosing. It means not only working hard and putting out a quality product or service, but aligning yourself with the company's mission in such a way that you seem like the natural next supervisor, manager, or lead in your department.

Examples of executive presence includes looking at the dress styles of employees at the next level above you and try to incorporate it into your own style, volunteering for projects where leadership is looking for extra hands, leading specific projects that leadership deems a priority (and get them done), attending workshops, trainings, or conferences that build skills currently being valued by upper management (even better if you can attend the ones upper management go to), building a network within and outside your department of people that can count on you and therefore vouch for you to leadership, and take every opportunity to present something to leadership, whether through a live presentation, an email, or a written report.

The idea behind executive presence is to create an image of yourself that already appears to leadership as the next role up, where you seem like the obvious choice when the time comes.

This looks different for each industry. I work at a university and I did this per my boss's guidance, including upgrading my dress attire, attending the optional-but-open-to-the-public board of directors meetings every month, getting time with the president to pitch an idea I had (even though he didn't implement it, he was impressed that I came up with it), and just generally cooperating with coworkers on projects and tasks beyond my job duties, which ultimately raised my reputation within my immediate area.

Zanzenburger posted...

I got promoted two years ago. My previous boss taught me a phrase: Executive Presence.

It means to put yourself in positions to be noticed by leadership so they think of you when promotion opportunities come up. This doesn't mean brown-nosing. It means not only working hard and putting out a quality product or service, but aligning yourself with the company's mission in such a way that you seem like the natural next supervisor, manager, or lead in your department.

Examples of executive presence includes looking at the dress styles of employees at the next level above you and try to incorporate it into your own style, volunteering for projects where leadership is looking for extra hands, leading specific projects that leadership deems a priority (and get them done), attending workshops, trainings, or conferences that build skills currently being valued by upper management (even better if you can attend the ones upper management go to), building a network within and outside your department of people that can count on you and therefore vouch for you to leadership, and take every opportunity to present something to leadership, whether through a live presentation, an email, or a written report.

The idea behind executive presence is to create an image of yourself that already appears to leadership as the next role up, where you seem like the obvious choice when the time comes.

This looks different for each industry. I work at a university and I did this per my boss's guidance, including upgrading my dress attire, attending the optional-but-open-to-the-public board of directors meetings every month, getting time with the president to pitch an idea I had (even though he didn't implement it, he was impressed that I came up with it), and just generally cooperating with coworkers on projects and tasks beyond my job duties, which ultimately raised my reputation within my immediate area.

This is pretty solid advice. Some people will still call it brown-nosing, but honestly, who gives a fuck?

Its not just about being the most deserving person for a promotion. Its also about being perceived as such.

Can't recall if I ever have. Guess I'm just not that motivated in a work environment

Glob posted...

This is pretty solid advice. Some people will still call it brown-nosing, but honestly, who gives a fuck?

Those people have a serious misunderstanding about what brown-nosing is.

I got tenure and a promotion last year (Assistant Professor to Associate Professor)

Glob posted...

This is pretty solid advice. Some people will still call it brown-nosing, but honestly, who gives a fuck?

Its not just about being the most deserving person for a promotion. Its also about being perceived as such.

Exactly. I am a manager now and I have multiple great employees that work under me. The problem is that unless they put effort to show they are interested in being promoted, I won't know. If I have two equally-great employees that put out the same quality work, but one just does their work quietly and goes home, while the other one shows an interest in the company and goes above and beyond, they would seem like the most natural fit for the promotion.

When an employee is brown-nosing, it's usually pretty obvious. They tend to apply these tactics in place of quality work instead of in addition to it. In the above scenario, I will give the promotion to the quiet worker if their output is generally better. But that's also assuming they have the skills that the promoted role requires (i.e. public speaking ability for meeting with stakeholders). That's why continuous professional development for the role you are seeking is super important.

One thing I also forgot to mention is that the interest in these additional projects and initiatives should be genuine. Don't fake your way through this. If you hate everything you have to do to get promoted, you will likely be miserable in the promoted role as it would likely just be more of that with a new title and a pay bump. In that situation, you are better off looking for a job elsewhere for the promotion opportunity.

Almost three years. I'm in a good spot and making good money while not having too many responsibility or being completely overwhelmed.

Two years ago. The next logical promotion is a job I don't want. I want to get out of my field so I'm in an MBA program.

I can pretty much bid for a "promotion" any time such a spot opens up. Two did recently but I actually opted not to bid in the name of keeping my job stress reasonably low.

I got promoted 6 months ago, which was only 3 months of being at my current workplace. I'm being promoted again in July.

I essentially walked in, revamped their entire workflow because it was set up poorly for the very first thing that i learned how to do. Come July, I will be doing that same thing for the company as a whole.

So, my advice is to be smart and call out dumb shit.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

I got promoted 6 months ago, which was only 3 months of being at my current workplace. I'm being promoted again in July.

I essentially walked in, revamped their entire workflow because it was set up poorly for the very first thing that i learned how to do. Come July, I will be doing that same thing for the company as a whole.

So, my advice is to be smart and call out dumb shit.

Depending on the people above you, calling out existing dumb shit can go one of two ways. Either they treat you like a genius for pointing out the obvious, or they get hostile because theyre responsible for the dumb shit and youre making them look bad.