Obviously, it is not enough just to do your job well. In most cases, you need to make sure that your efforts are noticed by the manager. I am trying to become more visible to my boss and ultimately try to gain a promotion. I need honest and concrete advice - what methods have you used to get noticed at work?
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RE: "A special project that either saves a million dollars or makes the company a million. Better if the idea is all yours. " ....
Find someone doing all the work on the special project, take credit for it yourself, cut them, then get your promo to a different group.
Everyone I knew that got promoted at T was a VP go to person. When the VP or director had a crisis they were the person that fixed it. That comes with a price. Not worth it for me.
It is tough for "white dudes". I also know of no white women being promoted. The only promotions that I have seen in my org are Asian (eastern and western) men and women. I do know of some cases (both white and Asian) of people being promoted when they accepted a job outside of the org that was posted at a higher level. I hope this doesn't come across as sounding racists. It is not intended to be, just observation, and I don't begrudge any who did get promoted. They were deserving, but there are many other deserving people that are simply not getting promoted at all. I know that I've personally kept my skills more up to date than anyone in my work group and am actually applying them, but that has done nothing to gain me any recognition by management. I got glowing peer reviews, which I appreciate. I think you have to have the right set of circumstances and a management team really willing to go to bat for you. Best of luck.
@upv+1hvDfAwR use to be told by my wh1te colleagues to stop playing the victim. you should do the same.
A special project that either saves a million dollars or makes the company a million. Better if the idea is all yours.
Create problems and then fix them. Claiming you fixed a problem is worth more than doing a good job.
I can tell you have been around a while as you are describing a scenario that used to be true, but no longer is.
Being a top performer is great but in today’s environment isn’t a top factor in getting promoted to a very limited number of L3 positions.
In IT, to go from L2 to L3 required a couple of things. One, you had to have multiple years as a top performer at L2 (top 8 in the VP org). They are included in meetings with the VP and already in the L3 pay range. Two, you had to get lucky and get promoted in place or switch jobs.
If you are doing your job well and not being noticed by your manager, then you are probably not doing it as well as you think.
Get knee pads.
Good luck to you but one thing you need to be aware of:
Over 95% of employees that were hired into management will retire or leave at the exact same level they were hired into.
*(unless of course, you have a relative at the executive level that got you hired in the first place..... but this exception exists in all companies)
walk into your 2nd levels office and fa-t while asking a stupid question, they will notice you
To the OP, like with all posts here, not enough info provided about your current role to really help. Their isn’t anything difficult about becoming more noticeable to your supervising manager. You can either sc--w off all day and get into the line of fire which is bad or you can go out of your way to learn and apply new skills, innovate and communicate success and failure. It may also be a case of being paralyzed in an organization where you have no hope of moving laterally or vertically because they either just don’t like you or trust you or they don’t perceive your skills as being aligned with their direction in which case you’ll have to adapt and overcome.
Promotions are tough these days, especially for those in a certain demographic (read: white dude). And look I'm not complaining, just being honest.
Your job performance and qualifications have little to do with your chances for promotion. If you are a woman or a POC, or even better LGBTQ+, or even better than that all THREE...the sky is the limit for you. You just have to make sure EVERYONE knows it and be very militant about it. Your org will get points and kudos for fast tracking you. It's in their interest to do so.
Getting noticed is a good way to get gone.
You'll never make it in this company.
Fly low.
Never, ever talk to management if you can help it. And then only by text or email.
Realize, they don't care about you, your family, obligations, or anything else and they will discard you like a busted needle nose as soon as they can
Seems you would be a good employee elsewhere, but at T, your goals are a study in frustration.
Smile, wave.
Try to run them out of $$$.