how to get a job promotion

so, are you stuck in a rut? you want to move up the corporate ladder? here are some things you need to know:

So, you have been on your best behavior, haven't been late or absent for a few months and have been really grinding out the work on your job. How do you go about getting a promotion to a higher level in the company? Read on and find out.

Things You'll Need:

Guts and a great attitude.

Step 1:

Earn your degree or certification first.
Prerequisites Count - Make sure you know what job specifications you need to possess in order to qualify for a promotion at your particular company. Do you need to have a certain degree or certification? Do you need a particular number of years of experience? Talk to the HR department and find out the requirements, then fulfill them before moving on to the next step.

Step 2:
Dutiful Consistency - You cannot be late on your deadlines or out of work on mental health days and expect that the company will promote you. Make sure you are on your best possible behavior and are meeting the acceptability guidelines for your work habits, before you even approach your boss.

Step 3:
Above and Beyond - Do more than you have to on the job. Take the initiative to find new business without being asked. Come up with new reports that will help your manager meet her requirements for the department. When it comes time to ask for a promotion, you will have some good examples of why you would make a good candidate.

Step 4:
Savvy and Tact - Contact a couple of recruiters and tell them you are considering other opportunities. Find out all you can about jobs in your community equivalent to the one you want to be promoted to and what these positions pay. You can do this by talking to headhunters, doing internet or library research. Do this first, then move to the next step.

Step 5:
Reasonable Logic - Come up with a list of three to five compelling reasons why you should be given a promotion and memorize them. Do not include any comments about your personal situation or finances. Do not threaten to find another job at another firm. However, you can allude to the fact that you have been in contact with people who would like you to leave your job to work elsewhere. You need not get into any details about this.

Step 6:
Pick Your Time - Make sure you choose a time of day that is less stressful and free from distractions to approach your boss. Maybe even wait until after the workday is over. You might ask for a promotion while you are taking him out for a drink or coffee. Or, do it in his office. Be prepared with your sales pitch and be confident.

Step 7:
Be Realistic - Understand that your boss does not have the authority to grant your promotion on the spot. They may tell you they have to look into it. If this occurs, set up a specific follow up meeting. If your boss tells you no, be respectful and calm. Do not resort to childish behavior, threaten to leave the company or anything similar. Find out why your request was denied and evaluate the response. If you are perplexed by the decision, speak to your HR representative. If you are very unhappy or disgruntled, find a job where you can be happy. You owe it to yourself to be happy in your work

By TheHabe

http://www.ehow.com/how_2112742_job-promotion.html?ref=fuel

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keeping a journal

A journal, unlike your class notes, goes beyond the simple act of recording what transpires in the classroom. The journal allows you to record dialogues with yourself regarding the meaning of the experience. In a journal, the writer can accomplish what T.S. Eliot expresses in The Dry Salvages. "We had the experience but missed the meaning,/And approach to the meaning restores the experience/In a different form." In a journal, the student writes, not to fulfill an exercise, but to learn. "Learning about a subject means more than memorizing axioms, dates, and formulas. You also need to develop general intellectual skills that will allow you to understand the discipline in its entirety, that is to approach it intelligently, knowing what questions to ask, where to discover the answers to those questions, and, finally, how to develop and organize your own ideas about the subject. A body of knowledge about the material is fundamental, but a student of any subject should also learn how to acquire and
interpret additional knowledge. . . .

. . ., writing is one of the most important intellectual activities that you do in college, for writing is not simply a method of communicating what you know about a subject; it is an extremely useful tool for assisting you in a variety of tasks, from observation to argument. From making simple lists to analyzing and synthesizing complex data, intellectual functions, especially the more complex ones, 'seem to develop most fully only with the support system of verbal language--particularly, it seems, written language.' The most useful writing in this kind of writing is what we call "private" writing, that is, writing you do for yourself." (Elaine P. Maimon, et al. Writing in the Arts and Sciences)


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Reasons for Keeping a Journal

To gain self-knowledge--to assist you in formulating the thoughts and half-formed ideas you have in your unconscious

To develop the habit of writing. Writers learn to write by writing. Keeping a journal helps allay some of the fears of the "blank page." Keeping a journal encourages self-expression and helps the writer to develop his/her talent.

To give form to confusion of everyday life.

To help in perceiving and observing more critically and sensitively.

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Subject Matter

Impressions: Take note of what you experience. Be concrete, using as much detail as necessary to accurately record what you feel.
The current situation: Summarize an event or experience that has taken place in class. Record your attitude or point of view regarding the experience in detail.

Revisionism: Choose an awkward or unpleasant moment and rewrite the experience so that the situation turns out more to your satisfaction.
The path not taken: Imagine a situation that turned out badly (perhaps because of reluctance to risk something important). What might have happened if, at the critical moment, you made the risky decision?

Controversy: Argue a position open to debate or dispute; take the unpopular side; try to find an unusual angle to support. (Remember, arguments are based on well chosen evidence; don't simply make pronouncements which are
justified by emotional response ("knee jerk reaction")

Reminder: The journal is not a diary of your daily activities. Use the journal to record thoughts and impressions, to remember the past, to plan for the future. Approach the writing of the journal as an journey into the unknown. In the words of T. S. Eliot in Little Gidding: "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time." In keeping a journal you discover new things about
yourself you may not have considered or realized before. Take Eliot's advice and "Fare foreward, travellers! Not escaping from the past/Into different lives, or into any future;/You are not the same people who left that station/Or who
will arrive at any terminus."

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article source:
http://www.nd.edu/~fys/gettingstarted.html

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need an alternative

i need to find a new job as soon as possible. i won't be a corporate slave anymore! if i had my way, i'd prefer being a WAHM, but if that's not yet possible financially, i need to at least find a job where i can be happy, unlike now, i literally drag my feet to work everyday.