Promotion is an advancement of an employee's position in an organizational hierarchy and/or increase of salary, as a result of employee's good performance or specific accomplishment
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How do I ask for a bonus?
I was promoted to office manager three months ago and a raise did not come with the promotion. I am guessing it was because I had received a raise about a month and a half before I got promoted. I ...
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Can you negotiate salary on a promotion?
A friend of mine recently applied for a position in a different team, this is a senior position and he was informed that he is the chosen candidate and HR will present the final offer (with the new ...
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Is it discrimination when my boss treats me differently after finding out that I'm looking for a new job? [closed]
I've been working for a company for a few years. Recently, I decided to look for a new job and found a position which requires me to wait for around 6 months to know if I am accepted or not. For some ...
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My new boss was junior to me, what do I do?
Recently I was in competition for a promotion to manager which I did not get. The promotion went to someone with less experience than I have and someone who, I believe, is less qualified than I am and ...
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How can I accept a promotion after knowing that there are too many problems with that position?
I'm a software professional working for a start up and I have worked on many different technologies and platforms at that company. I am working for them for 1+ years and they are impressed with my ...
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How can I make sure that promises for a promotion will be kept?
I work at a really sought after big security company. But I am stuck with all the corporate policies that prevents people from easily moving internally into good positions.
I interviewed for a senior ...
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Job Growth/Being Exploited? [closed]
I have a current problem on determining whether my employer is exploiting me. This is my first job out of college with a Computer Science BS and I deliberately chose this job despite to lower pay ...
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Job titles in the web business… What do you call yourself if regularly work with multiple disciplines? [closed]
I'm currently the Flash developer at an Ad agency. Knowing that Flash is becoming antiquated, I have spent the last few years absorbing everything that my coworkers do.
At this point, I can say ...
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What can I do about my transfer to a new position being blocked?
My company has posted a position in another department. It looks like I am qualified for the position. Before applying for the position I talked to my supervisor and was encouraged to apply.
In a ...
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Should I accept a delayed and nebulously defined promotion?
My employer is looking at creating a Media Specialist position. This theoretically would lead to a higher pay grade and hence be a promotion. However there are a couple aspects of the situation that ...
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How long should I wait to be told if I have been given the promotion?
I was wondering how long I should wait after having asked for a promotion to know an answer one way or the other. I asked to be promoted about a month ago and nothing seems to be forthcoming. Is this ...
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Displaying qualifications/certifications in my cubicle
I would like to be given more responsibility at work but do not feel managers at my work place are aware of my other skills sets. I am a programmer and believe that is all the perceive me as - however ...
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How do I professionally delay making a decision regarding a job offer
I am leaving my current job very soon and starting in a new role elsewhere which will be a small vertical move.
I gave a notice period at my current job. After this period has started, the team lead ...
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The right attire for the job
I'm a young engineer (in the oil and gas industry) and thus like other engineers usually dress in an ironed shirt and pants. I have however seen that people in other departments (and especially the ...
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A manager of the same pay grade was put underneath me after he messed up. Should I treat him as a manager or an employee?
I'm doing very well in my position, The other manager at my pay grade(who was hired around the same time as me) is doing very poorly. He was basically stripped of all of his responsibilities(but not ...
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Being Interviewed by fellow candidates
I am applying for a promotion within my department. The process involves interviewing with several managers. Upon receiving my interview schedule I discovered that some of the interviewers are ...
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Lack of recognition in role and career development within role
I joined my company four years ago within a customer care role (email and phone support). The company develops a niche product and I have quite a bit of domain knowledge.
Within that time, my ...
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What should be the ideals of setting up an additional career track?
I have an exciting opportunity to redesign the career tracks in my current company. Each department decides its own titles, job descriptions, salary ranges, and progression. I'm pretty excited, as ...
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My company was recently acquired, what do I need to learn to adjust to the new culture and seek promotion?
My current company has been acquired by another company.
The new parent company doesn't have any plans to change anything in our operations... but does some new things that we don't currently do.
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How do I maintain a good relationship with my old boss after being promoted?
I have been in some situations where I have been promoted above my current boss and ended up being his boss. What are some strategies I can use to make sure that I still have a good working ...
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How should I approach my boss about a raise/promotion?
What is the best manner to approach a supervisor and request a raise or promotion?
As a web developer, it's not really easy to quantify performance standards on any type of metrics either.
