get promoted

the promotion cycle is around again after 6 months and once again i am up for it. i know my boss submitted all the forms and i am, once again, cautiously optimistic.

i do feel much better accepting that i may have to wait another six months this time around tho’.

didn’t get it so left for a new job – teaching!!

Sometime in early July, take time to review communications from authors, find appreciative comments about my work, and send them to my boss. She will not just put them in my file but also circulate them to the director & the editorial directors. At my annual review she encouraged me to do this. It will help make the case for my irreplaceability :-) & for promoting me. And more broadly, such evidences of happy author-editor relationships are used in the process of courting desirable new authors: “These are the kinds of things other authors have said about our editors.”

I’ve never gotten a better appreciation than this one I cherish from years ago: “You make me sound more like myself.”

But I do have some recent ones that are worth passing on. I’m putting a reminder about this on my electronic calendar.

I’m rotting in my current position, the thing is its not so hard to progress, I just need to put some effort in. sigh effort is hard :)

looking at some internal postings…

(well, at my first annual review, 6 mos. after I started working here), I brought this up with my supervisor. I asked what I would need to do to qualify for “senior editor” status. She said I was on track & it requires full familiarity with the way things are done here.

This year at my review (in April), she brought it up, saying that I do have the expertise, as she has been able to entrust some very complicated projects to me. She explained that the larger institution’s rules require managers to be able to thoroughly justify promotions, especially when they don’t involve a job that is publicly posted. She made no promises but gave me to understand that she was considering when best to make the case.

Today in our dept. meeting it was announced that my colleague who was most recently promoted will be departing from us, as her husband has been offered a tenure-track position in another state. She will instantly rise to the top of our freelancer list! I’m sad for our dept.; it’s always a challenge to find truly competent editors, even though 150 may apply for a job that is posted publicly for just a week or two. But I’m happy for her family.

And I’m pretty sure that this bodes well for my prospects.

No shyness, no laziness. Hard work is in order, but if I need to network/schmooze/suck up/be political, I will do it! Remembering my last,there is no excuse for not going through this and then land in agony. I have no room for error now.

well i got a different position not a pay increase but im not taking calls anymore.. im calling people back.. not bad not bad

So I got promoted to AVP (Assistant Vice President) last year (end of 2007), so the likelihood of getting another promotion (to VP, Vice President) so soon afterwards is slim to none. BUT…I’m still going to try my hardest. The opportunity won’t arise until the same time this year (Dec 2008 / Jan 2009), so it’s a far off goal. I’ve got to put in the time all year though and make it evident that I really want it.

In order for this to happen, my boss needs to leave. He has been saying he will retire before summer, but he doesn’t act like he is going anywhere.I am going to chat him up today and see what I can glean from our talk.