Are you about to apply for an internal promotion at work and you want to make
sure that you land the job? Watch this video for my four strategies
to make you the obvious choice to get promoted at work. For the best career
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bell so that you get notified when I post a new video every Tuesday. You're
probably here because you're about to apply for a promotion and you want to be
the ideal candidate in order to land that job. And maybe you're even hoping
that by the end of this video I will be give you some of the perfect interview
answers and will have told you how to actually talk to your manager in order to ask for
that uplevel. But the thing with all of those things that I could be talking to
you about is that you think you need none of those things is what you actually need.
Because none of those things are going to be what actually gets you promoted.
None of those things are going to get you to the corner office. Now if you
don't want to be in control of your career and you want to follow all of the
rules that are just really the slow lane for career growth, there's a lot of
really great videos here and a lot of career coaches that are going to teach
you all of the standard rules that are going to "get you ahead." That include the
technicalities of how you apply for your job promotion. But if you want to get the
job without it ever being posted... and if your company has a policy that even
internal promotions have to be posted, you want them to be begging for you to
apply, and it doesn't even matter what your CV looks like because the job is
already yours. If you want to create your own
opportunities, if you know that you're exceptional and that the standard rules
don't apply to you, and you just need to get acquainted with the ones that do...
keep watching. Because in today's video I'm going to share with you four
strategies that are gonna get you that promotion without ever having to put it
an internal application. These are the exact strategies that I applied in my
own career that took me really far really fast
including a promotion that I got when I was on
maternity leave which is exactly when most women have a career stall. And there are
the same strategies that I teach my clients that are getting them ahead and
getting them on the path to the corner office without ever having a fill in an
internal promotion job application. Trust me, if you want to cultivate the career
of your dreams you need each of these four strategies in place. So without any
further ado, let's get into it! Does your name come up for new opportunities? This
actually starts way before at the numeral was ever posted and this is
where a lot of ambitious professionals are actually beginning behind the 8-ball.
Instead of just being the shoe-in without the role ever being posted,
they're coming up against external candidates that definitely aren't as
good or as suitable or as awesome as they are, but those people are good on
paper and they're really good at talking the talk. Or even worse the slacker that
you work with that's really good at PR it's gonna get the job before you, and if
this has ever happened to you comment hash tag #slackerssuck down there in the
comments. If your name is not the first to mind when the promotion opportunity
comes up you're gonna have an uphill battle/ This is exactly what I
actually work with my clients towards, because you want to be the forerunner
You want to be in the job they you want to be selected before the opportunity is
even posted, and you want them to know that there's no point in looking
elsewhere because the perfect person is right in front of them. The second
strategy is what are you known for? This is what a lot of ambitious professionals
struggle with, particularly the women that I work with. If you don't know what
you're known for, and especially if you're not already known for the
potential that you have, you're gonna be at a disadvantage in the process. And
this is actually one of the double binds that women face at work because often
women are assessed not on their potential but on what they're actually
doing, but promotions are being awarded based on the potential that they bring
into the role. You have to effectively switch the script. If you haven't created
your reputation for all of the potential that you bring to the role and your
company you're going to struggle to get to the next level as
well as the one after that. And the trouble is if you don't know what you
want to be known for, you're not going to be known for anything at all. Now I want
to hear from you in the comments tell me down below, do you know
what you want to be known for? If you already do and you're already working
on it comment yes. If you haven't quite figured out yet put in no. Next you need
to know where you actually want to go. I was speaking with one of my clients last
week and she actually asked me do I really need to have a five year plan. Now
tell me this if you don't know where you're going how on earth are you going
to get there? How are you going to make any accurate or meaningful career
decisions if you're not making any decisions against an end game? I
describe it like this: it's kind of like deciding that you want to drive to a
river, but you don't know what River you're going to so, you just get in the
car and you start driving and eventually you
find yourself on top of a mountain. You can see a river is that what you met you
don't actually know when you reach the destination, because you never knew what
the destination was in the first place. The problem is if you don't actually
know where you want to go in your career it's going to be really difficult and
basically impossible for you to create any plan or strategy that's going to
help guide you there. And let's just be clear hope and hard work are not an
effective strategy. If you have c-suite dreams, you need to have at least a
general sense of where you're going. You need to have a plan in strategy and
that's how you're going to be able to communicate with the people that can
help you, and let's face it it's how you can actually begin helping yourself.
Which brings us to the last strategy, and that's do you have the right support? If
you want to spend years reinventing the wheel that has already been invented, by
all means follow your bliss. If you want to play safe and you want to play by the
rules that exist you can read the blog so you can check out a few how-to videos
here on YouTube and that's gonna get you what you need the technicalities of the
mechanics of getting promoted in theory - who knows maybe you'll be an
exception to the rule and it'll work for you -
but if you're exceptional, you defy the rules of gravity. So stop trying to make
gravity apply to you and go with it! And if that's you, what you really need
is a mentor - you need a coach - who has already defied gravity. They already
know the laws of physics that actually apply to you. And they're gonna be the
ones that help you thrive your career into the stratosphere. Because what I
really want for you it's to stop agonizing over if it's time and if
you're ready to put in this application for an internal job promotion. I want you
to stop having to put in the extra legwork. I want the job to just be yours
because it already should be. And if you are somewhere that there is for a tape
and there are defined processes that you don't have the opportunity to bypass, I
want that red tape to be guiding you towards the promotion that you deserve So I've got to ask is that what you want if that is what you want if you're ready
to take control and accelerate your career and take it into the stratosphere
where it belongs... then the next step is registering for my
free webinar the five breakthroughs to get promoted. You are not average and you
need to stop settling for a career that is. And this free masterclass is going to
take you through the strategies that are going to transform your career. You can
register at masterclass.capdecasolutions.com and I'll put the web
registration down along here right now see you got it and it'll also be in the
description. I hope you found this video helpful and I hope that you feel ready
to go after that internal job promotion, that you feel ready to accelerate and
take control of your career, but mostly I hope that you feel inspired to create
the career that you've always dreamed of are you ready to defy gravity and
skyrocket your career. if you are pop in the comments down below I'M READY! If you
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be sharing tips on how to do your job promotion interview if you do have a
formal interview process that you need to go through your company or if you're
already in the mix and you want to make sure that you land that job. I'll see you
in the next video! Bye!