The Best Way to Get Promoted Quickly

Having a tough time explaining your fabulousness to your employer? Having difficulty getting promoted? Feeling unappreciated?

This issue is the same whether youre not getting ahead in your organization or not hearing back from employers when you send out your resume!

You need some oomph behind the story of your career. Its there! Youre just not telling it!

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When it comes to career advancement and promotions, you already know to work hard, work smart, show up to work on time, smile and display that great attitude. Yawn. I wont bore you with that

You deserve the advanced course

Ill teach you something that will:

• Give you perspective on what youve accomplished, show you how far youve advanced, and highlight how youve helped your teams, your companies, and the rest of the world. Aye. You did all that. Yes. You.
• Provide a solid basis and data for you to conduct effective discussions with your current employer during your performance reviews, annual reviews, and promotion opportunities.
• Show you what to populate on your resume (because Heaven knows how most of us struggle with this).

Who doesnt love a journal?

Call it whatever you wantan employee journal, an employee diary, and so on. Ive called it a Career Achievements Journal and you can grab the FREE DOWNLOAD here: Career Achievements Journal: 14 Points that Make You Marketable, Get You Promoted, and Accelerate Your Career .

For every project or major initiative you undertake, capture the following fourteen points. Do this for every major undertaking however and whenever it arises.

You might have a project last a day, a month, or a year. The length is unimportant as is whether you do your projects serially or simultaneously. Each project has its own list.

1. Project Name: List all major projects and initiatives. They can be a daylong, monthlong, or yearlong initiative.
2. Statistics: Identify anything quantifiable. This includes budget, timeframe, number of resources, number of customers, etc. Capture anything that shows magnitude and impact.
3. Business Problem: Identify the high-level business problem you and your company are trying to overcome, improve, and so on.
4. The Players: List everyone involved from stakeholders, contributors, key team members, units within your organization, partners, and vendors to customers or companies who are benefiting from your project.
5. Solution: Identify how, at a high-level, you and your company solved the problem.
6. Result/Outcome: Capture what happened as a result of the project implementation.
7. Benefits: Capture the entities that benefited (employees, customers, partners, other units in the organization) as well as specifically how they benefited.
8. Challenges: List the high-level challenges that surfaced during the project. There are the issues that arose as you were building your solution (as opposed to the high-level business problem you were addressing overall).
9. Overcame Challenges: Identify how you overcame the challenges throughout the project.
10. Hindsight: Identify what you would have done differently if you started the project knowing what you know now.
11. Lessons Learned: Capture the high-level lessons you and your organization learned as a result of implementing the project.
12. Your Development: Identify how you grew specifically. What can you do now that you couldnt at the beginning of the project? What new skills do you have?
13. Company Development: Identify how your company grew and improved. What can your company do now that it couldnt at the beginning of the project?
14. Victories: Reflect on the high-level victories you achieved over the course the project. Even if the project wasnt implemented fully, still consider all the accomplishments along the way!!

You might be successful but

You will never feel successful or happy if you dont take the time to reflect on all youve accomplished.

Its also extremely important for your personal and professional growth to take time to evaluate the lessons, benefits, and so on of your experiences. If you dont, youll be prone to stagnation not to mention susceptible to repeating your mistakes!

Also, check out 8 Great Tips to Prove Your Value on Your Resume . It goes hand in hand with this lesson.

Make sure to grab the FREE DOWNLOAD. Get it here: Career Achievements Journal: 14 Points that Make You Marketable, Get You Promoted, and Accelerate Your Career

Now, go out and set the world on fire with all youve accomplished!

About the Author

Andrew LaCivita is the Founder & Chief Executive of milewalk and the milewalk Academy . As an internationally recognized executive recruiter, award-winning author, speaker, and trainer, Andrew has dedicated his career to helping people and companies realize their potential. He frequently serves as a trusted media resource and is the author of Interview Intervention, Out of Reach but in Sight, and The Hiring Prophecies (the eLit Gold Award Winner for Best Business/Careers/Sales Book for 2016).

Andrews passion is serving as a coach and trainer via his top 5 Careers Blog, Tips for Work and Life , and his online training site, the milewalk Academy . On a daily basis, he circulates his Todays Line to Live By , which is a self-developed inspirational quote. You can find these daily dispatches of inspiration on his blog and social media platform.

To learn more about Andrew, see his full biography and resources page .