Planning your career path with your employer

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1. AnonymousDecember 5,2024 at 3:40AM UTC

   This sounds like my boss. She takes everything personal and was considering me for an internal role within the dept. but she ended up giving it to someone else. Claimed the decision was tough , which it wasn’t. Just keep applying outside of the organization if you don’t see yourself moving up anytime soon. I am doing the same.

2. GirlBossanova934974December 7,2024 at 2:01PM UTC

   2 things come right to mind. A) In today's corporate environment, very few managers are looking out for members of their staff especially the ones they did not hire. Thus, asking your manager for a move to such and such position is asking far too much. B) Your manager in this case has ZERO intention of promoting you to any position. In fact, your manager is just flat out dishonest! She knows perfectly well that most jobs are NEVER advertised from within. She is thus free to hire whomever she wants to from the outside which suits her just fine. WELCOME to Anything Goes Corporate America! On the flip side in many companies these days, jobs are advertised on the outside when the internal candidate was chosen weeks or months ago. This is usually handled by over anxious staffing agencies who are willing to be regularly exploited for the chance of making a small sale.

3. AnonymousDecember 8,2024 at 4:27PM UTC

   I think you need to take more control of your own destiny and not leave it to that manager. She is either stagnating you with others who are pushing her more or you expect her to solve this for you. Don't! Do it yourself! Work with HR or the skip level to her and let them know your dedication to the company but decide where you want to go first. If they cannot show a clear path to getting there then you have to decide to look outside to a new company.

4. AnonymousDecember 9,2024 at 6:06PM UTC

   OP here. Thanks for all of the feedback on this. I do agree that at the end of the day, moving into a better role is pretty much up to me. I see some possibilities, but at the same time, I'm not seeing that I'll receive much support because my boss likes me exactly where I am-- in a role that will be very hard to fill if I vacated it. I'm in my early 50s, so I'm also thinking I'm just not as interesting to her as her new hires who are in their 20s and 30s. One of side of me in anxious to get out of the job and find something more fulfilling, another side says just sit back, continue with the status quo and enjoy the nice paycheck until you retire or there's a reorg and I'm sent elsewhere.