What is a Job Promotion?
How to Ask for a Promotion (4 steps)
Asking for a promotion is not the easiest thing to do for most people. It often involves proving their worth as an employee and stating the reasons why they deserve or have earned the right to be promoted. By following the steps below, individuals can approach the request for a job promotion in a respectful and considerate manner.
1. Know When to Ask
The timing of a promotion request is essential to making sure that your request will be sympathetically received. Before sending your boss a request for promotion, the following three (3) things can help improve your chances of success:
- Wait for a position to open within the organization;
- Wait until you have spent a sufficient amount of time within the organization and made significant connections with colleagues;
- Send your request in anticipation of an upcoming performance review or work anniversary.
Many places of work conduct some type of performance review on an annual or bi-annual basis. By sending your letter of intent in advance of such a review, your request will be conveniently timed for your superior’s consideration.
2. Do Research on Your Worth
3. Write a Job Promotion Letter of Intent
4. Set up a Meeting with Your Boss
5 Things to NOT do when Requesting a Promotion
- Justifying by stating the pay of others in the organization;
- Reminding that you’re a college friend or family member of someone else in the organization;
- Requesting when the business is going through tough times;
- Getting emotional when asking; and
- Not asking for a promotion. You don’t get anywhere unless you ask!
Sample Job Promotion Letter of Intent
JOB PROMOTION LETTER OF INTENT
Jesse Fletcher
119 12th Street, Suite D
Toledo, Washington 15432
Date: December 6th, 2019
SkyBound Care Products
ATTN: Janet Mason
3010 Wharf Street
Seattle, Washington 16410
Dear Ms. Janet Mason,
I, Jesse Fletcher, am writing this Letter of Intent to put forward my request to be considered as a candidate for the position of Senior Sales Representative.
In my time working as Sales Representative, I have proven myself to be an asset to SkyBound Care Products by ensuring that orders are delivered on-time and anticipating client inventory shortages. By using this strategy, I have exceeded annual sales targets three years in a row.
Furthermore, I have distinguished myself by acquiring three new clients and opening a new local sector in the process. I requested the opportunity to open up communications with private elderly care facilities in the Cobalt district. After making several personal calls and providing in-person product demonstrations, I signed up two clients for bi-weekly orders of our products.
As Senior Sales Representative, I will be able to bring additional value to SkyBound Care Products by having the entire sales team focus on order fulfillment and client inventory. I have proven methods on how to increase our clients’ monthly orders that I can demonstrate to the entirety of the sales team. If promoted to a senior position, I will be able to acquire and maintain more small independent clients in the local sector. Through the acquisition of new clients, we will be able to have increased sales with local delivery and direct client management.
If you have any questions regarding this request, or if you require any documentation or references, please contact me at (555) 426-1317. Thank you for your time and consideration regarding my candidacy for Senior Sales Representative.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
Jesse Fletcher