Should I stay or start job hunting? Please advise

hunterex

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Back in October 2021, I got a job offer & I gave notice to my current employer, who immediately countered offer. I got a salary rise by 25%. However my job title still stays the same - software developer. I had been told by the Head of Software Department that I should be able to get another promotion in April 2022

As my company has its annual salary review every April, I asked my manager if I am on track to be a senior developer. However, my manager told me a different story saying that I had a huge salary jump last October & I should be promoted to senior this year.

I am not sure if I should start job hunting marathon where I have to brush up all the common interview questions. Furthermore, I am in the transition from C# domain to Python & I would really like to establish my Python skill foundation before I can add Python skill in my CV.

I am really worried that if I stay on current role & I missed the senior role promotion, I would be very disappointed as I had wasted months. Plus, I am also doing family planning. If I change to a new job, I might not get paternity benefit until I complete probation.
 
hunterex said:
I had been told by the Head of Software Department that I should be able to get another promotion in April 2022

As my company has its annual salary review every April, I asked my manager if I am on track to be a senior developer. However, my manager told me a different story saying that I had a huge salary jump last October & I should be promoted to senior this year.
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Sorry this isn't clear at all - haven't they both told you you should be promoted? What was different about what your manager told you - the fact that he said "this year" instead of specifically "April"?

Why not see what happens in April, if you're getting a promotion/title change then might be worth hanging on for two months to grab that?

No harm in starting to interview now but try not to reveal your salary/total compy etc.. and base any pay expectations on an assumption that you're getting a promotion and rise in April and would require something higher than that in order to move.
 
Taking a counter-offer doesn't put you in a great spot tbh, I would never do it personally.

But sounds like the situation you are in is very simple. They're either going to give you a promotion next month, or not. If they don't, find another job.

You'd be a muggins to put up with any carp from employers in software development in the current market.
 
Had a 25% pay rise in October and wants another one in April :cry:

You blew your chance to negotiate the job title you wanted. Tip: never take a “you’ll get x in y months” guarantee without it being put in writing.
 
Are these alternate accounts that start threads like this?

I find it unusual to join a predominantly computer based forum to post a thread about your career

EVH said:
Had a 25% pay rise in October and wants another one in April :cry:

You blew your chance to negotiate the job title you wanted. Tip: never take a “you’ll get x in y months” guarantee without it being put in writing.
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And as per the above, always negotiate everything you would like at that point, anything that's not agreed there and then with nothing in writing very rarely happens. Regardless of what someone tells you verbally....
 
Some people get they belly's tickled by nice titles it fulfills their ego's. Nothing wrong with that different strokes for different folks. What it boils down to is are you happy and do you earn enough. Being happy is more important that salary most of the time but the goalposts change throughout life.
 
SPG said:
Some people get they belly's tickled by nice titles it fulfills their ego's. Nothing wrong with that different strokes for different folks. What it boils down to is are you happy and do you earn enough. Being happy is more important that salary most of the time but the goalposts change throughout life.
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I tend to push for particular job titles, mainly so that nothing on my CV looks anything other than a progression or sideways move at worst, but also so that I don’t end up with a job title that isn’t transferrable to another business or sector. No point in being “head of joe and dave in the Flibble application help department” when “Head of App Support” would do the same job AND be relevant to another business in a few year’s time for example.
 
SPG said:
Some people get they belly's tickled by nice titles it fulfills their ego's. Nothing wrong with that different strokes for different folks. What it boils down to is are you happy and do you earn enough. Being happy is more important that salary most of the time but the goalposts change throughout life.
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I used to think like that but it's a bit naive in retrospect, titles also matter externally, it's not just a personal vanity thing but if you can show progression or show a particular title then that can directly impact your prospects at potential new employers etc..
 
ChocAndGray said:
Are these alternate accounts that start threads like this?

I find it unusual to join a predominantly computer based forum to post a thread about your career



And as per the above, always negotiate everything you would like at that point, anything that's not agreed there and then with nothing in writing very rarely happens. Regardless of what someone tells you verbally....
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I joined to post about my career because this site came up when I googled career advice forum.

As for job titles, I found in my job hunt there was no real consistency with them. I interviewed for a Head of Analytics job that paid slightly less than the job I got which is plain old Data Analyst. In that Head of Analytics job though you were just head of yourself much like I was when I started off as a junior analyst.

I'll be honest it does bother me slightly that my job title makes me sound like I'm no more senior than a graduate but it's much better than being a Senior Data Analyst making less than half my current salary which I was several years ago.
 
Yeah it can be an issue. I've seen similar with "VP" roles that are relatively junior in reality. The most senior role I've held had a fairly non-descript job title; there are times I've considered just putting a more common title on the CV that gives a better representation of what I was actually doing / level of responsibility. Obviously I've detailed this in the bullets below, but I think some people just can't look beyond the headline job title, they will skim the job titles and decide whether someone has the requisite experience without actually considering what they did in those roles.
 
Clearly the OP has taken our advice to heart and is very busy at his new job. So busy in fact they haven't been back since March 5th when they registered and posted.
 
My place had been pretty lax about job titles, you had your internal title/role name which meant nothing to most people outside of the company. So everyone just put what they actually did as their title.

Now for my area they’ve mandated everyone to use specific titles based on their career banding which hasn’t gone down well with a lot of people! I quite like it as can be nosy now and see what band people are on ;) (the salary ranges within bands are so wide and overlap it doesn’t give much away there).
 
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