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Do You Want To Get A Promotion?

Written by Natalia

promotion and raiseAre you thinking of asking for a promotion? Perhaps you’re too long in your current position and after all your hard work you believe you deserve to get promoted?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, today’s blog post is for you.
 

How to receive a promotion in 30 days

If you are planning to ask for a promotion, this article in Glassdoor has everything you need.

Heather Huhman has crafted a 6-step guide to help you land a promotion in 30 days.

Don’t forget to sell yourself properly. You can’t always rely on others to recognise your work. You have to demonstrate your value, just like you would do if you had to apply for a job.

” Research shows June is one of the best months to land a promotion, so now is the time to start planning your next move.

If you’re looking to set yourself up for success in the upcoming month, here are some tips to landing a promotion in the next 30 days… “

Read the whole article here: “6 Steps to Scoring a Promotion in the Next 30 Days”

Why you haven’t had a promotion yet

On the other hand, if you have already tried to land a promotion but failed, chances are you need to improve your strategy following the advice above.

If you feel like everyone else is being promoted except for yourself and you see your colleagues pass you by, then perhaps you need something more than a “strategy tweaking”. You might believe that you deserve a promotion but, perhaps, that’s not the case (yet).

In the following article in Brazen Life, by Levo League, you will discover the 9 reasons that might keep you from being promoted.

Self-evaluation is the key here. Be 100% honest with yourself and recognise your weaknesses in order to improve these areas.

“ When you don’t receive a promotion, the first thing you need to do is re-evaluate your qualities as an employee. If you’re trying to figure where you went wrong in your position, here are nine reasons you were probably overlooked for a promotion…”

Read the whole article here: “Feeling Stuck? Here are 9 Real Reasons You’re Not Getting Promoted”

 
It needs a lot of work to land a promotion, but nothing compares to the feeling you have at the end, when your work is acknowledged and rewarded. And if you evaluate yourself honestly, set an action plan for your weaknesses and follow these 6 steps, the next promotion is yours!

 

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Filed Under: Career, Career success Tagged With: career development, promotion, Promotion At Work

Do recruitment processes discriminate against senior women?

Written by The Career Success Doctor

According to The Independent on Sunday, the way to shatter the glass ceiling is to change it.  They quote ongoing research by Egon Zehnder International (EZI) which looks set to confirm that the selection processes used to find senior executives, particularly board directors, discriminate against women.

To be fair, the article doesn’t actually say ‘discriminate’, using the more diplomatic ‘works against promoting women’, but you get the thrust.

The argument runs that the tools and techniques companies use to measure, assess and evaluate candidates for senior posts are out of date.  It is claimed they are based on experience-based competencies in a world where a lot of women lose out on experience because they tend to take time out in their 30s to have families.  Talent management programmes tend to focus on precisely that age group to groom the top directors of the future.  And women in their 30s with young families often buy into the idea of flexible working, which EZI describes as the ‘mummy trap’.

Other European countries who offer flexible working do a lot better than the UK as far as numbers of women on company boards are concerned – particularly the Scandinavian countries.  So I find myself wondering why UK companies don’t look at how the Finns, Danes and Norwegians do it.  Is it the infamous English old-boys’ network getting in the way of progress?  Or are  men unaware of the problem?  Certainly many men I talk to, including some fairly high powered coaches, question the existence of a glass ceiling (to which I am inclined to respond: ‘ welcome to OUR world, mate’.)  As long as that view of things prevails, it’s going to be hard to budge that glass ceiling.

One of the challenges we are going to have to deal with is the loss of opportunity which is likely to come in the current economic climate.  As a coach and trainer I have seen companies and government organisations alike cutting back on people development.  Secondments and other good career development tactics don’t come cheap (although I can see a great future for intern programmes for people fresh out of college or university).  Cut-backs are likely to affect promotability, so if  things are difficult for women now, they are likely to get worse in the next couple of years.  There are likely to be fewer opportunities to gain experience, more intense competition from both men and women for the opportunities that are available, and higher levels of stress for all concerned, and there’s likely to be a knock-on effect in the private sector as more people chase fewer opportunities across the board.

However, redundancy (or lay offs) bring opportunity: if you can’t break through the glass ceiling, why not create your own compay, where there IS no glass ceiling.  According to the CEO of the Small Business Task Force, speaking in 2005, a pound invested in developing women’s enterprise provides a greater return on investment that a pound invested in developing male owned enterprise.  A nice little tit-bit of information when you’re building the business case for that elusive bank loan!

And, hey, who said your boss had to pay for your training and development?  Some of the most successful women I know have put their hands in their own pockets and invested in themselves, for example by gaining additional qualifications or deliberately taking a pay-cut to get a job which offers valuable experience.

Now, more than ever, is the time to be thinking laterally about your career success.


Filed Under: Career, Career change, Career success Tagged With: Board Directors, Discrimination, Egon Zehnder International, Glass Ceiling, Independent On Sunday, Mummy Trap, Promotion At Work, Recruitment Processes

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