Can I reverse the question? Why do you want to be promoted?
To manage/lead people? To get more money? to get more responsibility? to get a better job title?
A few thoughts off the top of my head... Because my role has changed vastly from what it was when I joined. I was doing noddy bread and butter work supporting my manager over here and taking workload off of him. I now do much more off my own back, have implemented processes, support other departments over here (for my dotted line manager over here) and built great relationships with the people/vendors that we work with over here. On top of that I've helped migrate our day to day 'noddy' work (basically managing content for people to review/approve worldwide) from one platform we started with, to another, and we're just going through another migration. Because of COVID our userbase jumped from approx 5,000 people to over 20,000 and also the migration from one platform to another meant we ended up doing first line support as opposed to the vendor doing it (as discussed in my other thread). COVID also had a big effect on the other part of my role which is supporting projects we have based over here and enabling people to securely WFH which is incredibly complicated when it comes to media transport and security. I'd like to eventually manage people, to take some of the noddy work away, I'd obviously like more money and responsibility but right now it really is the job title that is worrying me. I think half my problem is that I've just grown naturally with the role, and expanded the role. So there's no clear cut I've done XYZ.
Job titles has never been a factor for me, I've been with enough companys and seen the inside workings of enough to understand that the same/similar title at one place means something completely different at another.
The expection to this maybe if you have to interact with external clients on a daily bases and industry titles are required. Or you need to have a weighted say in policies and processes so you need to have a c-level job title.
So I work in film, and although people dont like to admit it job titles mean a lot. I go out and deal with productions and sometimes I can say one thing and people don't take the blindest bit of notice because of my lowly title. Or I get left off chains because they think the SVP is the decision maker so why bother. I'm in a weird position where I deal with pretty senior people, I'm constantly the lowest 'rank' in some meetings yet often giving the most helpful guidance etc. I dunno. This post is turning into a bit of a rant
Back on topic.. my next step is to write up a deck to convince my dotted line manager (based here, very decent guy who supports his staff, but also hates my boss) that a lot of the additional work I've taken on is for his team and therefore I should be putting some onus on him to argue my case. He used to report to my HOD (my boss's boss) so he has a good relationship there but has previously not wanted to get too involved.
Secondly, I think it's time to throw my boss under the bus. Go back through my performance feedback notes where every year I've said "I'd like to know what to do to get a promotion" and show that he has not done so. Take that to HR, explain my frustrations.
Got caught out by this applying for new jobs when I was in one for 10 years. Without my job title changing throughout those 10 years, recruiters were asking questions seeing it as an red flag.
Indeed.
