Evaluating Your Chances for Promotion

In regards to your career advancement, you always want it to be favorable to your side.

Solid job presentation and leadership skills will certainly make strong your prospects for the high mobility, but employers also consider if the employee transmits a uniform professional image internally and externally or not. Bad breath, messy clothing, piercings and tattoos are among the highest attributes that prevent an employee from a promotion consideration, as per the June 2011 review by CareerBuilder.

The study was done among 2,878 hiring managers in various industries and it conveys that many employers measure promotions beyond mere appearance. But still opinions of employers also differ as some may prefer attitude or even leadership in regards to volunteering, leading projects or representing the organization in the broader community. Also, the perception toward technology and innovation to grip the change, positivity are important considerations.


Many bosses and employers also consider factors stated below in evaluating promotion probability:

Job performance: What is the employee's performance trace in present and previous positions? Has he always surpassed those expectations?

Skillfulness: Does the employee carry the skills, training, experience and education required to do well at the new position?

Mind-set: What is the employee's approach to the work? Is she ready to pour in extra hours when required? Does she volunteer to assist others? Is she optimistic toward peers, clients and end-users, and persuading on the department's milieu?

Open to learn: Is the employee constantly searching for opportunities to learn more about the job, and those of the peers?

Does he intend to learn more about the company and how to perk up himself?

Aspiration: Are the employee's hopes practical? Why does she require a promotion? What does she anticipate the tests of a new position could be?

If a candidate possesses any unique skills that will make him particularly successful in this position or which nobody else in the department possess, then it should also be considered by the employer.

You can ask yourself the following questions also to assess your candidature for a promotion:

• Do I volunteer for hard assignments?
  
  
• Do I handle transformations well?
  
  
• Am I alert for the future?
  
  
• Do I exhibit a positive outlook?
  
  
• Am I competent and successful and do I stretch myself when I need to?
  
  
• Am I occupied in my work?
  
  
• Am I always searching for ways to develop in my role, in my career, in the organization and in my field?

Further, be always ready to support your application with precise, point-by-point instances of how you meet each prerequisite. Equip yourself with the right training and education required for that aspired position and do offer your boss with an option to locate a replacement and also training him with the required skills for your position to facilitate a smooth transition.