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I am looking to move jobs after a promised promotion did not turn up and not receiving any meaningful payrises since I started at this company 3 years ago. I work in the planning and engineering industry in a relatively large company (900 people across many UK offices).
My boss has been recommending me for a promotion all year and has been very transparent with the process from his end - completing a recommendation style form with input from myself, completing the FY2025 budget for my (and other peoples) increase salary which he and I talked about at length to make sure I got a salary I wanted, getting this 2025 budget with my promotion signed off from the head finance teametc - only for a blanket decision at the very top of the company of no promotions or payrises to be permitted within this particular profit and loss unit (of about 40 people across the region). To cap it all, my boss got a surprise 2% payrise this year and I got nothing lol. My boss is livid given the work he put into this and he knows I will now be looking for a job. Our office is 90% Department A and then there are 5 of us in Department B doing different work so losing me, the upper-mid level person sitting between the team lead (my boss, who is meant to be out all day winnin work) and the junior colleagues will be painful for the department b team in Southampton.
The role I would be advertising myself as offering would be a 'Technical Associate' who is responsible for the day to day management of some junior staff, the overall delivery of projects and client satisfaction with the ultimate aim of my boss being out winning work and I make sure the client is happy through client managmeent and delivery of projects to get repeat business from those clients. This is the planning industry and an 'Associate' is typically bringing in work from new clients and doing business development work alongside some technical delivery, whereas my role would be focussed on client , staff and project delivery, as well as some technical delivery myself.
As such I am looking to move job and I am after some advice:
As I haven't had any meaninful payrises in 3 years I am quite behind on my pay compared to what my pay should be when taking into account inflation, even without any performance based pay rises. I managed to skip the post covid hiring boom and I have minimal inflationary pay increases and no performance based pay increases despite my bosses recommendations this year (and probably last year) that lots of people did get to see. As such I would not want to disclose my salary in an interview to then get lowballed. From looking at job adverts outside London I know the salary expectations of my (promoted) role. As an interviewer does this annoy you for me to not tell you? Would me offering the salary I am after instead of my current salary help get those discussions moving and make sure the role and expecvtions are right for both parties?
In September 2023 I had quite significant Pulmonary Embolisms and it is looking like I have Antiphospholipid syndrome Syndrome. This means that (without medication) my blood loves to clot to try to kill me but on a day to day basis I get tired a fair bit easier and sometimes have bad breathing days where it's like trying to work when your getting quite ill (plus a bunch of non office work related symptoms). I would't be able to travel far for client meetings (maybe 90 minutes each way) due to fatigue but I'm sure at least 75% of meetings are in this distance. For instance I went to London for a client presentation and it made me very tired for about a week before my body recovered. I would have a need for working from home 3 days a week or ideally 4 days a week from a fatigue perspective which I appreciate doesn't really align with the managing junior colleagues thing. I will need to have weekly (perhaps bi weekly if my blood behaves) blood test for blood thickness at the docs. If I get another clotting event I could be out of action for a month but the idea is I don't have a clotting event again, but perhaps more realistically it could be every decade. How much of this should I disclose? I am tempted to tick the "do you consider yourself to have a disability" box on forms, cynically does that get people interest from an DEI perspective or in this day and age does it still hold you back? The other thing is I am still recovering from my blood clots and this can take 18 months or so, so I am still getting better - I don't know where my new ceiling is but I just dont want a potential employer thinking I am going to be racing around the country meeting clients.
My boss has been recommending me for a promotion all year and has been very transparent with the process from his end - completing a recommendation style form with input from myself, completing the FY2025 budget for my (and other peoples) increase salary which he and I talked about at length to make sure I got a salary I wanted, getting this 2025 budget with my promotion signed off from the head finance teametc - only for a blanket decision at the very top of the company of no promotions or payrises to be permitted within this particular profit and loss unit (of about 40 people across the region). To cap it all, my boss got a surprise 2% payrise this year and I got nothing lol. My boss is livid given the work he put into this and he knows I will now be looking for a job. Our office is 90% Department A and then there are 5 of us in Department B doing different work so losing me, the upper-mid level person sitting between the team lead (my boss, who is meant to be out all day winnin work) and the junior colleagues will be painful for the department b team in Southampton.
The role I would be advertising myself as offering would be a 'Technical Associate' who is responsible for the day to day management of some junior staff, the overall delivery of projects and client satisfaction with the ultimate aim of my boss being out winning work and I make sure the client is happy through client managmeent and delivery of projects to get repeat business from those clients. This is the planning industry and an 'Associate' is typically bringing in work from new clients and doing business development work alongside some technical delivery, whereas my role would be focussed on client , staff and project delivery, as well as some technical delivery myself.
As such I am looking to move job and I am after some advice:
As I haven't had any meaninful payrises in 3 years I am quite behind on my pay compared to what my pay should be when taking into account inflation, even without any performance based pay rises. I managed to skip the post covid hiring boom and I have minimal inflationary pay increases and no performance based pay increases despite my bosses recommendations this year (and probably last year) that lots of people did get to see. As such I would not want to disclose my salary in an interview to then get lowballed. From looking at job adverts outside London I know the salary expectations of my (promoted) role. As an interviewer does this annoy you for me to not tell you? Would me offering the salary I am after instead of my current salary help get those discussions moving and make sure the role and expecvtions are right for both parties?
In September 2023 I had quite significant Pulmonary Embolisms and it is looking like I have Antiphospholipid syndrome Syndrome. This means that (without medication) my blood loves to clot to try to kill me but on a day to day basis I get tired a fair bit easier and sometimes have bad breathing days where it's like trying to work when your getting quite ill (plus a bunch of non office work related symptoms). I would't be able to travel far for client meetings (maybe 90 minutes each way) due to fatigue but I'm sure at least 75% of meetings are in this distance. For instance I went to London for a client presentation and it made me very tired for about a week before my body recovered. I would have a need for working from home 3 days a week or ideally 4 days a week from a fatigue perspective which I appreciate doesn't really align with the managing junior colleagues thing. I will need to have weekly (perhaps bi weekly if my blood behaves) blood test for blood thickness at the docs. If I get another clotting event I could be out of action for a month but the idea is I don't have a clotting event again, but perhaps more realistically it could be every decade. How much of this should I disclose? I am tempted to tick the "do you consider yourself to have a disability" box on forms, cynically does that get people interest from an DEI perspective or in this day and age does it still hold you back? The other thing is I am still recovering from my blood clots and this can take 18 months or so, so I am still getting better - I don't know where my new ceiling is but I just dont want a potential employer thinking I am going to be racing around the country meeting clients.
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