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WHETHER YOU’RE IN your very first job, or you’re someway up the career ladder, you’ll definitely have your eye on a promotion at some point.
No matter how early it is into your career, it’s never too soon to lay the groundwork for moving up the ranks and we have seven great tips to help you grab that dream promotion.
Best of luck – and let us know if you have any tips for getting a promotion in the comments below.
It might seem too obvious to merit mentioning, but a key factor in getting promoted is being seen as a professional – all the time. This means dressing for the job you want, behaving professionally at all times, not complaining about work in work, being positive, solving problems not creating them, and generally being an all-round asset to the team and business.
Not only should you be planning your day and week to make sure you’re hitting all your targets on time, you should be planning your year and career too.
Knowing where you want to go in your career makes it easier for you to plan to get there – laying the necessary groundwork in terms of tasks you need to have mastered or projects you need experience in.
Fail to plan and plan to fail…
While making sure you’re doing all the tasks required of you, it’s a great idea to keep an eye open for opportunities to impress.
Whether that’s taking the lead on a project where possible, or initiating a plan for something that needs doing off your own bat, there are endless opportunities available to impress.
Again, it doesn’t matter what point you’re in your career there will always be someone more senior than you, so finding a mentor to help you navigate the way is imperative.
It doesn’t have to be someone in your office, you could find someone in the same field as you and ask them to mentor you – even meeting up for a coffee once a month.
As important as getting someone ahead of you in your field to look up to, it’s equally important to have a group of peers that you can network and share experiences with.
Heading to industry events, networking meetings or just being on the lookout on LinkedIn or similar professional sites will rustle up a wealth of connections for you to keep in contact with, learn from and find out about opportunities from.
If you’re looking for a promotion, make sure the right people know. Your boss might think you’re perfectly happy doing what you’re doing unless you let them know that you’re looking for growth opportunities. Help them out by applying for internal roles where appropriate, or just having a word in their ear at the right time.
Showing your bosses that you’re intent on self-improvement and dedicated to your career is a way to impress them and have them bear you in mind when promotion time rolls around.
A great way to do this is to continue on with your education, such as by doing a masters, as it shows long-term commitment to the field and your role, and will help you negotiate for a better salary when the time comes.
DCU Business School was recently accredited by the AACSB, putting DCU Business School in the top five percent of business schools internationally. If you’re considering changing or furthering your career, head over to DCU Business School and see how you can achieve your ambition with a Master’s degree.
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Best one is change your service provider. Not going to name names but offering 200-300mb data limit a month is pathetic. Surprises me how many take up this option preferring other useless parts of the deal of free messages and phone calls.
There are providers who offer unlimited and 5GB limits at the moment. Data limit is is way more important then stupid free messages.
Above is about bill pay.
Emobile €35 per month unlimited everything dunno how everyone isn’t using this package
Emobile Sim only 30 day contract, all calls, texts, and 15 gigs of data.
No worrying about data. €32.
It’s a no brainer.
Without naming anyone but they come after 2 and before 4, unlimited 3G and a text/ call bundle on bilpay for 40e a month. Also free roaming incl. 3G in UK, Italy, Sweden and a few others
As far as I know you have to be an existing Eircom customer to avail of their packages.
You don’t have to be an eircom customer to get the Sim only.
45,000 minutes,
10,000 texts,
15 Gb data.
30 day contract.
€32 a month.
That’s with Emobile.
How good is the emobile coverage now. I had a work phone on that network a few years back and it was absolute crap.
Emobile uses the Meteor network.
Very good in Dublin and Kildare.
Very good call and data speeds in the aviva RDS o2 with thousands of other people staring blankly at their phones.
With my first smartphone I had a package with the chemical symbol for oxygen – I got 2gb data per month, because I used wifi to a) preserve battery and b) because it was faster, I never went over 500mb per month.
I moved to a certain company “not” mentioned above, I believe they own my last provider now.. On the page that shows me my usage information it says I have over 20gb data to use per month, I was also lucky enough to sign up back when you could use your flexi units to call and text the UK, the roaming sadly I haven’t been able to avail of yet!
Our home DSL is now quite poor due to distance from exchange (average 4mbps), but the 4G signal is fairly close to here since launch so I expect it out here soon, on 3G I get the same speed if not better than my wifi – and the uploads are always faster.
On Monday morning I speedchecked the 4G and got 21mbps up and down, so I’ll be happy when that signal hits my locality!!
Even better if you have already paid off your phone is their pay as you go – Unlimited data, unlimited any network texts and weekend calls – €20!
Then use your credit for weekday calls. Or similar €20.33 sim only bill pay.
They’re definitely the no brainer to go with!
(That’s with Three.)
Step1:
Switch to 3 Bill Pay, I have never ever worried about data.
I just ask for the wifi password everywhere I go and regulars at mine would have it saved on their device
I’m on pay as you go from Three. I never spend more than 20e per month. I got rid of UPC telly channels and broadband as I now tether my laptop to my phone and stream or download everything. I now have 4G (which is amazing) free for the next six months which is faster than UPC ever was. All this plus free texts, weekend calls and anytime calls to other Three customers means by the end of the month I still have most of the 20e credit left. Plus I’m not tied to a contract, It’s a no brainer.
How much has it cost me to read this article and all the comments?!
Simple solution turn off your data usage and use free wifi spots. or switch to pay monthly where you pay 30-40euro a month for free calls/texts to any network and 10/15 gigs of data per month… you’d be stone mad using your apps with a credit phone with no monthly offer, credit wont last very long.
Unless you’re with 3
Actually the pre pay with 3 as far as I remember you got your free texts to anyone, free 3 to 3 calls at weekends and 15gb of data for €20 per month – but that’s probably changed now since they launched their 4G
It’s a soft cap of 15gb, they’ll only slow you down if it’s affecting other users
3 have potential to be an excellent company if they changed customer service, their Indian based customer care would seriously fry your brain big time so enough is enough with them couldn’t hack it anymore after constant mistakes on my bill and them reading from a script (not to mention serious difficult to understand)
Compared to mobile operators in the UK the ones we have offer dreadful deals when it comes to data especially.
Why does everyone seem to have such issues with 3 customer service?
I have had no trouble with them at all, in fact – the agents I have dealt with were great. I would rate them above my experiences with meteor, O2, Vodafone broadband, Imagine WiMAX (and their predecessors Irish Broadband), ESB, Airtricity, Bord Gais and Sky Broadband. All of whom I have felt like banging my head off a wall having to deal with, and as far as I know – all of their call centres are based here..
Only trouble about these recommendations: some of the companies that have an apparently excellent data deal have really, really bad coverage for calls.
Funny that.. When I was with O2 I ended up in a lot of places where my phone couldn’t get a signal, which was mad, because O2 are the next biggest after Vodafone, and they’re both supposed to have near 100% coverage.
When I switched to 3 I figured I was probably going to see the same sort of issues, but funnily enough – I have yet to find somewhere that I cannot get coverage at all. The data is definitely patchy in places, and when it switches to edge it’s a pain in the butt having to reset the carrier to get it to switch back to 3G (apparently it doesn’t do so automatically – because 3 don’t have an edge network and so when you’re on edge you’re on the O2 network – and switching back is not always automatic, so someone claiming to be an engineer told me anyway!) but I’ve found the coverage a bit better with 3..
Having said that – I’m usually around the South East and travel to Dublin frequently, so I can’t say that this would apply anywhere else in the country!
The 1,2,… Carrier that offers unlimited data is the best deal, of course no one gives anything for nothing, their customer service is crap,they offer you an amazing deal when you start but then tie you for 24 months, and roaming is very expensive, plus the coverage is quite limited, but it’s cheap
Their business users package is brilliant. Good C/S and unlimited everything. ….
Tesco offer some great deals too. For €10 a month I get 300 mins 300 texts and 1gb data. Compared to 250 mins & 250 texts with 750 mb of data for €45. It’s a no brainer.
Packages are coming down in price, was with 3 mobile, two yrs ago, charged me 80e for unlimited everything, will never go near 3 again, customer service is appalling, foreigners u cant understand ( no disrespect)
now with EMOBILE 35E unlimited, calls,txt, and data, three now doing same deal, emobile all Irish, with then 18 mths coverage never a issue, dont get hounded by calls of late paying bill. Brilliant service.
It’s as simple as going to the 3 shop in Oliver plunkett street in cork city and you can get 4g speeds with three on bill pay and as far as I know the only operator to offer 4g on prepay and bill pay for no extra charges and I have never been charged extra on their all you can eat data plans. Imagine getting speeds of around 20mbs and not worrying about extra charges. 3 to me is a magic number.
Ingress eats ally data… :/
*all my not ally (stupid phone )
I’m on 3 PAYG at the moment and the main problem I have is that their 2g data is non existent for me. And that’s a problem because in work I can only get 2g. If Vodafone had a decent data plan I’d be with them in a heartbeat but unfortunately they don’t have one that suits me. And three are the only truly unlimited network, their fair usage is 20million mb
Why does this article not mention Onavo? What a load of poo…
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