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Early Promotion |
| Message Name: |
Possible, but not probable |
| Date Posted: |
01/10/2006 |
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I will be 2.5 years at CON level come next September. Trying to get promoted to MGR. Want to know: do you have to have an overall Exceptional to get early promote? Or will an Outstanding do it? To get an overall Outstanding, do I need to have a couple Exceptional PFFs? Or is it not worth me busting my rear if it happens 1 in a million. |
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To get put up for early promotion your project has to put you up for it. While a strong relationship with the project and a number of Exceptional PFFs may do it, you'd definately need an Exceptional rating for the year. Even then, it's by no means automatic. There are alot of Consultants looking to move to Manager and I think it's becoming hard for people to make the move because of the gluttony of resources.
I was in your position last yaer (30 months at level last September). At the time I was rated Outstanding and didn't get put up for early promotion. I wasn't heart-broken about it as I didn't really feel ready anyway as I hadn't done too much work overseeing more than 2-3 people. A month or so ago I was a little disheartened about not getting put up for early promotion and talking to a manager (who wasn't part of the promotion decisions last September) and he thought I was probably in a very good position. I originally saw getting one of the last mid-year promotes as somewhat of a bad thing as the first time I'd be up for promotion (not early) would be 42 months instead of 36. However, the manager I was speaking with had another take, that because there are so many people trying to make Manager, that it may be hard for all the people with 36 months at level to make it and the people with 42 months at level may have a distinct advantage of having a bit more experience.
I guess we'll see how it plays out in the next year or two, but I wouldn't expect early promotion to be easy at all, even with great ratings.
Granted everything is different for every office (I'm out of the Reston/DC office) so what's true for my office may not be true for the rest of the country (in other countries I've heard widely differing stories, so I wouldn't expect this advice would apply at all for offices in other countries).
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