"Why do you want this promotion?"
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In my last video, I told you how to prepare for your job promotion interview.
And if you haven't already seen it, I'm going to link it.
So go back and watch that one and come back here.
But there's actually one question that I do want to dig in today.
And that is, "why do you want this promotion?"
And this question trips up a lot of ambitious professionals. And it should be simple.
You know why you want a promotion, because you're ambitious,
you want to get to the next level, because you want to be a leader.
But they're not actually asking you why you want the promotion...
They're asking you to describe why you DESERVE the promotion. Those are two very different things.
Now, if you're new to my channel, you're probably expecting me to tell you
how to give the most flawless answer in the world to this question.
"I deserve this promotion because I work hard."
But that is not the career advice that you need.
What I'm going to share with you today are the two questions that you need
to be able to answer to yourself in order for you to effectively answer this
question in an interview scenario, and make sure that you stay until the end,
because I'll be sharing the question that they'll be asking you.
And that's going to be how you know you've absolutely nailed it.
Question one. Are you ready for it? No like, Are you seriously, really ready for it.
Because if you're going for a promotion, be it a step up the ladder,
never really stopped to ask yourself this question.
a step diagonally on the ladder, or maybe it's stuff that is eventually going to
bring you up the ladder, or if it's a promotion in terms of title in terms of responsibility
in terms of compensation, or hopefully all three, you need to be ready for this.
And I don't think that you're here watching this video, because you feel really ready.
You would not need to watch this video, if you knew how ready
you are really deep down, you came to this video because you're asking yourself
a question like, what was I thinking? Should I even bother showing up?
Am I ready? I know exactly what you're thinking right now.
"How does she know?"
There's something that I can tell you already, especially if you're female, but really,
this applies to anyone who's watching this video, you can have the perfect script,
you can walk into that interview, and you can execute that script with perfection,
you can say exactly the right thing at the right time to the right person.
However, if you do not know that you deserve this promotion, you will not get it.
If you don't believe in yourself, whatever words you use will not matter.
Because is if you don't believe in yourself, how do you expect anyone else to?
And just to clarify, this isn't just like my personal opinion, like, oh, here's my thoughts.
You can either believe them or not? No, no, there is research on this.
The person who has the highest level of confidence in themselves is the one that
inspires the most confidence from other people in them, even when that confidence
has no basis. And that's why in the real world, we encounter all sorts of
people that have ascended in the ranks that we wonder, how did they ever get there?
And the answer is actually really simple. It's because they're actually
so dumb that they believe in themselves. They have so much overconfidence,
it inspires other people to have that level of confidence. And that's what
helps them rise. Now, wouldn't it be great if you can take that information
and use it for good instead of evil? Truly knowing that you deserve the promotion
is what's going to get you there? Much more so than any words or reasons why,
at the end of the day, hiring is not quantitative. It's qualitative.
It's a fundamentally emotional decision. So if you're a low key by being self doubt,
that's what people are going to pick up on. In short, you have to give yourself
the promotion first before anyone else well, once you do, everyone else is going to follow.
Now I want to know, do you actually truly, deeply feel ready for this promotion?
If so, comment ready down below, if not hang out at the end of this video,
because I have a great resource for you to leverage in order to help you
find that confidence and that belief in yourself.
And it doesn't matter if you're applying for a new job. Or if you're applying
for a promotion. If you're interviewing for any new opportunity, you need to ask yourself,
does this job deserve me. And there's a few questions that are going to help you
figure this out. For the jobs you deserve you it needs to do with you thing,
it needs to best leverage your skills and your capabilities, it needs to help you grow.
And when I say this, I mean that it needs to help you grow both professionally.
But also personally. The thing is, if you're someone who is dreaming of the
corner office, like if you have C suite dreams, you need to be challenged.
And if you're in a role that's not challenging you it's not going to be the role
that's moving, moving you forward. And it's going to slow you down on the
career track, which you really need to be aware of, because not all promotions
are created equally. So you really need to ask yourself, if this opportunity is
getting you on the right track. Or if it's taking you off of the right one.
It needs to be the right environment that's really going to foster and help
you reach your potential. And this is where you actually really have to stop
and ask yourself, if you're in a position that's asking you to justify your
ambition and explain your potential. Are you really in the right place?
Seriously, because if you're being asked to justify yourself now that you're
being considered for the promotion, then you're going to probably have
to justify yourself again. And it seems kind of arbitrary, and maybe even a little
bit lazy to be asking such an obvious question. And ultimately, I think it ignores
one of the most important components of the interview, it ignores the fact
that you are interviewing them. This is just as true and a promotion interview
as it is for any job interview that you're going to experience over the course
of your career. And in my experience, most super talented and highly ambitious
professionals, because they're not in control of their careers. They feel like they're
bystanders in their career. Like they're just waiting around hoping that the
right opportunity presents itself. The thing is, if you're not in control of your
career, you are putting your own ceiling on your ability to succeed.
You should not be in a promotion interview, being asked to defend why
you want the promotion, why you deserve the promotion, why they should
hire you. Ultimately, when you stand in your power, and you know that that
job is yours because you deserve it, they're going to be asking you the question
you really want them to ask. And that is how do we not promote you sooner?
If a job interview is a required part of you getting the promotion that you deserve,
cool, but what they should be doing is pumping you up, because they already know
that you're their person, they know you're the best of the best. And they know that
the success of their company and their team is dependent on you accepting the role,
which ultimately leaves a decision in your hands. You get to decide if you accept
the promotion. If you are trying to climb the corporate ladder, and you're not being
headhunted by other teams of our companies, that is a strong indicator that
your career growth strategy is for live, you need to fix that. And the reason
that the strategy isn't working is because the career growth strategy that
you've been told, wasn't designed for you. those rules were set up for you to fail.
And this is exactly what I help my clients with.
I help them deconstruct and add a new strategies that are going to work for them.
I help them change the game and set the rules that stack the odds in their
favor to build the career the lives that they really want. And it all begins with
glass ceiling. I highly recommend checking it out, it's 35 minutes, it's going to be
my free masterclass the five breakthroughs to get promoted and smash the
the best 35 minutes that you've ever invested in your professional development.
And even better, you can watch it on demand right now.
Go to masterclass.capdecasolutions.com, put in your name and email, click
Watch now and you can watch it on demand. So that's it. That's my two
questions that I want you to work through in order for you to prepare to effectively
meaningfully and convincingly ask that question if it does come up in your job
promotion interview. And once you find that answer, I promise you they are
going to be asking you why they didn't promote you sooner and the only
topic of conversation remaining is going to be when do you start?
And actually I'm curious, are you already a target for recruiters if you are going
to the comments type I already am.
If you're not yet and you want to be let me know down below.
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I'm going to be talking with you about when you get a promotion but there's
no pay increase that comes along with that. What do you do?
How do you actually pull this off? Thank you so much for watching. If this is helpful,
let me know down below. And if you're ready to take control if you're ready to get
the driver's seat of your career, I hope to see you in my free masterclass.
Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next week.
Talk soon!