Don’t Quit Yet! 5 Ways to Improve Your Current Job

Source: CBS News

Do you feel unappreciated in your current job? Do you want to leave or stay at that job?

First here are some things to think about:

Reasons to stay: Great benefits, great hours. You clearly understand what is expected and are a truly known quantity, well liked by management. A new job is an unknown; you may get a bad boss, still have no career path and have to work a zillion hours a week.

Reasons to go: Lousy salary, no career path, stagnation, better opportunities may be on the outside.

Here are 5 things you can do to boost your CV without giving up the perks of your current job:

1. Tell your boss you want a promotion

Your boss doesn’t have any place to promote you, so why bother asking? Because you honestly don’t know if that’s true or not. And promotions come in many formats. So, if you’ve been an analyst, you get a growth promotion to a senior analyst and then a few years later to project manager.

2. Re-write your CV to show a time line

Make sure it demonstrates your upward path, even if your title didn’t change.

3. Think sideways, not upward.

There’s no upward career path at your current company in your current area. There’s no law that says, “Once a programmer, always a programmer.” I’ve worked with numerous HR people who had advanced degrees in information systems. They moved into HR through the systems side of HR. Once you’ve moved sideways, you can move upward through that path.

4. Make your own opportunities.

Remember that meeting with your boss where you discussed a growth promotion? If it didn’t go well, no worries. Make out your own career path. Look for growth opportunities and take them.

Demonstrate to your management team that you are doing more and learning more and this is benefiting the company. This qualifies you for the growth promotion you asked for earlier.

5. Ask for more money.

Gather information on what you would bring on the open market and present it to your boss. Ask straight out for a raise. You’d be surprised at how few people are willing to be direct.

As long as you aren’t ridiculous in your asking the worst thing that will happen is your boss will say no. Most likely the answer will be, “Not now.” But you’ve set that little seed that you are worth more money than you are making right now.

At the end of the day, you have to decide whether the perks of staying outweigh the potential of leaving. But I would strongly look towards ways to change up your current job.

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