High Performers Don’t Need Job Promotions
Being passed over for a job promotion can be difficult but it can be the best thing in the long run too
You’re too qualified!”
That was what I kept hearing back in 2009 or so. Not long after the world recession in 2008 people were suddenly shocked and jobs were lost overnight. I was one of them. And it was through no fault of mine.
When I started looking for jobs in my town I was but one of tens of thousands that were left unemployed also.
The competition for even the smallest of jobs was fierce.
In all, I applied to over 840 jobs and received less than 5% of rejection letters.
And those rejections never explained to me the reason I was not getting an interview. So I was left to examine myself and discovered that how I managed professional rejection was up to me.
And I`m convinced that being rejected for a job promotion requires the same coping mentality as being rejected when seeking a job in the first place.
Because it’s your attitude that will eventually get you the promotion within your company or a job if you have none.
Although I was prepared to bend over backward to get work in the aftermath of the 2008 recession it became clear to me that this drive alone was not going to guarantee me securing a job. And when you`re in the waiting line to prove yourself it’s difficult to show how great your professional skills truly are.
And it’s not just me who has felt that way.
As plenty of high performers get frustrated with a system of employment that holds them back.
To deal with this, you need to keep a positive attitude.
It’s that mentality that may get you a promotion rather than you having to depend on the people that are in the way of you getting there.
Because it’s you that creates your best performance.
If you are struggling to get promoted just stop and think about how you got into that position in the first place. It was ‘you’ that gave yourself that opportunity to apply for the promotion and this is a result of all the tough decisions that you’ve made up until that point in time.
But managers, leaders, and those that hire and promote don’t truly know the value you can give and that can cause huge frustration.
If people that are in control of promoting you don’t see this or don’t want to recognize it then in truth there is little you can do about their ineffectiveness to appreciate you.
Sure you can try to twist their arm, do them a favor, or become friends with them but why do that? as there are many others who want promotions thinking along the same lines too.
Instead, you need to do something different.
And in doing that you need to continue with a positive attitude.
Because, if people fail to promote you then you need to promote yourself.
Of course, you can’t turn up for work and expect to sit in the office of that new position and push the person who got the promotion out. Rather, you need to retain the attitude that got you as far as you have and accept that others are thinking in a limited way. With that, you need to self assess as to why you wanted the promotion in the first place.
That answer will help you make your next move for your career and your life too.
And that might mean that it’s time to leave that company and go to something or someone new that accepts the value that you have to give.
Sure, job promotions can give you better money, a better office, more responsibility, and more control.
But starting your own business will give you all of this and if you really feel that you`re worth a promotion why would you limit yourself in working for others?
By starting your own business you’re guaranteed your own space or office, more responsibility, and to be able to make your own decisions. But you may not be guaranteed a lot of money. At least, not at the very beginning.
But that’s not to say that the money won’t come.
If the level of income is your drawback to starting your own business then you need to start a side business before you go for that promotion in work. And make sure there is some income coming from that business before you even think of applying to get promoted.
Make some money outside of your main job first and then later have a nest egg to call upon if you do all you can to get promoted but continue to get passed over.
For example, if you don’t get your ideal company promotion then use that side income to either kick start a full-time business or invest in something that will make more money for you down the line.
And this will launch you into something more fruitful for your future.
And if you make the right steps to open your business alone and stay away from that company that rejected you in the first place then you’ll show the company owners that those who should have promoted you got it wrong and maybe they don’t deserve a promotion within that company either.
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