I’m a 36 years old woman living in Canada, and I have tripled my salary in 8 years of working at the same company, cumulating 8 promotions in total. I went from being a clerk to being a director with no prior experience and no university diploma. AMA!
I got 8 promotions and tripled my salary in 8 years at the same company, AMA!
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Now that you have made it to the top, do you have plans to send the elevator back down? Have you had to give up more hours now that you’re a director vs a clerk? What’s the difference in stress/pressure. Any plans on bettering your communities if so which are important to you?
1 piece of advice to rise this fast?
Y’all hiring? LOLLLL
Fellow Canadian here. I see this happen at many Canadian banks, although getting promoted every single year without a fail is impressive!! I usually get proposed every 2 years, with 11 months being the minimum and just over 3 years being the maximum.
Good job! I aspire to be as successful as you. 🙂
Pick me as stay at home dad
OP failed to disclosed that the police is currently investigating 4 coincidental death of high level management directly above her. Supervisor, manager, and prior director.
I bet you are good looking.
No questions, just a big high five for you. The glass ceiling is real, don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.
Congrats.
Is it in tech or finance? Toronto based?
What are the responsibilities you have been taking, in each of the 8 positions? What are the skills you acquired during each of the positions? Any challenges worth mentioning and how you overcome them? Thank you 😊. You are highly motivational
Hey good job I also did this USA!!
congrats. you’re an outlier.
Me too!
Typical for a true A player at your age range. 32-40 are the best years for the pump.
God evening folks! Welcome to another episode of shit that never happened.
Good for you. Happy to see you succeed.
At the same time, I have a horror story of a lady getting promoted for her loyalty. She went from a Instructional Designer to CEO in about 9 years (No diploma, just went from Bartending to cert III and got the job). She has zero skills as CEO, she started power tripping and company had to let go of 90% of the staff after failing at project management. She insisted that managing project on Google Sheet is much easier and better than implementing any tools. As a result they lost half of their clients and got refund requests on many projects. Still Managing Director (Founder) is so hard bent of getting reputation back by not changing CEO but bury all drama by getting lots of awards. They recently won Fluxx award (For their business and for CEO of the year WTF) and been invited to Forbes Business Council.
Not sure how ugly it can get. I have lost all respect for all the business awards.
So then – give us your secret successful plan. How did you do it? So we can all follow and also be successful : )
Seriously give me your secret plan step by step and don’t forget to miss anything lol!
I have an internal promotion interview tomorrow for a director role – what advice do you have for someone applying from within the company as opposed to an outside hire
What’s the field? And which province?!
What position do you work in?
How much do you make now and what field is it in?
Ya but i bet you’re good looking.
Tripled mine in 1 year by switching companies
Numbers would be helpful to understand the magnitude of
Honest question. How many bosses did you sleep with on this meteoric journey?
How is your work life balance?
If you wanted to branch out to a different company, do you think your lack of university diploma would make it difficult or would the experience be enough for employers to not care?
What are some things you do to be a good leader?
What’s the pay now?
Golden handcuffs no?
What was your starting salary and what is it now?
Good for you, so sad i hate you people
I am a 34 year old. Been working in the same company for 6.5 years.
If i exclude the joining hike, i have 3.6x my salary and if i include my joining hike, i have 5.27x my salary.
Not too bad it seems now.
Hi are yall hiring? 😁
What was your starting salary?
I did 6x in 5 promotions in the same company in 9. 🙂
I think no one got to the point. If you’re not an 8, then that’s a fact. Many times I have needed to be a type other than mine – mainly to influence other types than mine. I go sit and talk with an 8 that I have a good relationship (or another type that better fits the situation) to get advice and then mirror it back or practice my X behavior and messaging. That is why you need to cultivate relationships with all types!! They can be your resource team. Learn to “read’ and appreciate all types. I too have been a CEO and CFO very successfully $ and otherwise. Learn to adapt to the type needed in the situation. Also, if you want to be a CEO start thinking and contributing where possible like a CEO. I’m a 5. Think about the whole business as if you owned it; look for opportunities to improve even the small things, and also think about the customer’s point of view and what might exceed their expectations.
Did you have to push or ask aggressively for promotions? Is there a natural hierarchy to follow which allows this….eg junior, senior, asst manager, manager, deputy director…etc
Other than the obvious skills: Communication, Empathy etc what Soft Skills did you seek out to improve perhaps even by doing small courses online etc that really helped?
I’m working in Retail Banking with a lot of customer service experience looking to “move up” and into Fraud.
I’m naturally pretty good at de-escalating as Im pretty empathetic
Hell yea. 30 k a year is sweet
Congratulations on your success! What industry are you in? Did you apply to internal openings for the promotions, or were you offered unposted roles? Did you let people know of specific roles you were interested in, or specifically ask for pay increases?
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Nice. I took an entry level hr job at NYC govt agency to get my foot in the door. Got a promotion with a 25% increase 4 months later. My boss left for another government agency and took me with her as her chief of staff
Few more promotions and raises later had my salary tripled in about 8 years as well lol