Yearly Review QuestionIs there a safe way to let my supervisor know that I am growing bored in my job? I'd like to take on more responsibility, but I also want to be paid for it. This is my first review with this supervisor. I've been in this job for 7 years and always had great reviews with my previous supervisor (who retired). Ideas? Sure! I think you can make the point that you're ready for some new/fresh challenges on the job, that you're ready to accept more responsibility, that you're confident that you'll be able to make a more meaningful contribution to help achieve the goals of the organization - stuff like that. I would presume, however, that if a more responsible job is offered to you that it will carry with it a higher salary. I would not, in other words, say I was ready for a fresh challenge with more responsibility and, in the same breath, overplay my hand by saying that I, by god, expected to be paid more for taking on that fresh challenge and more responsibility - that's clearly implied by saying you're ready for a move up the responsibility ladder. Make sense? Paul W. Barada The Negotiation Expert Makes sense...but I am just nervous about asking to take on more responsibility when my job descriptions says "and other duties as assigned." Couldn't my supervisor simply demand more of me w/o change in pay/title/etc.? Sure, that's a risk, but a very small one, in my opinion. Remember the old saying, "nothing ventured, nothing gained"? The idea here is to make it politely clear that you're ready to move onward and upward, not just to be given more to do for the same money in the same job. Worst case scenario: Should you be asked to do more for the same salary, make it tactfully clear that wasn't what you had in mind when you said you were ready for more responsibility. Anyway, the words, "other assigned duties," are more of a catch-all sort of phrase meant to suggest that the employer can ask you to do other stuff besides or instead of what you were hired to do - if appropriate or necessary. Make sense? Paul W. Barada The Negotiation Expert Does your review process have any "stretch goals" or "development needs" or anything along those lines? Most places I've worked do. That's the spot where you can say "hey, can I learn how to do the colored basketweaving? I've got the plain weaving down pat and I'd like to move up." Or even ask your boss what the next career step is for you and what they recommend you do to get there If you're not sure what to ask for. There might not be an immediate raise involved, but if you broaden your horizens, another higher opportunity is likely to come up down the road that you'd then be qualified for. Tess Paul and Tess, Thanks for the good advice. I've got until next week to get it all straight in my mind. | |
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