How to ask for a promotion
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A very delicate topic, to which I will probably devote several posts or return from time to time.
The very first question to ask yourself is “how have I proven myself during my time with the company? As a reliable person to whom you can entrust a business task, not to control and get a good result, or the one after whom you get a lot of bugs and fixes, and even fails to meet deadlines. In the second case, you can not even dream of any increase in salary, say thank you that you have not been fired.
Let’s say we are doing well with this, and we go to the manager to ask for a raise. The supervisor is probably not a team leader, but someone higher up, because team leaders are very rarely in charge of money (only in very small companies). Nevertheless, after your conversation, the first thing the supervisor will do is ask the team leader for your references. You could say that the decision is half in the hands of the team leader.
And now the most important point. We reach the supervisor (whether online or offline) and make our wishes known. The most obvious question you’ll get is what your promotion request is based on. And for your success, you better have a good answer to that question.
When I was in my mid-life years was in this situation, and began to praise myself, what a shitty skilful, made one service - is working perfectly, the second - is also super, all praise, kissing, etc., etc.
To which I replied to the head of the phrase, which I realized only after a few years, when I have their first subordinates: “The salary grows with increased responsibility. I’m so good and I do everything well - that’s a poor explanation for a raise.”
And now I realize just how darn right he was. I often get hurt when I do business with people who think they are masters of their craft while being accountable for nothing. This is the headache of almost all leads and above - how to distribute responsibility among the team without drowning in micromanagement and doing everything yourself.
If you want to get more, take more responsibility. This is the most ironclad argument you can make. Don’t forget to earn the trust, otherwise the responsibility will not be entrusted to you.