Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work?

Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work? by senttoschool on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:35AM (#34593162)

* If you have good results from shipping a feature, be sure to send the results over to your team, and cc people as high up as possible.

* In team meetings, always speak your opinion but do it respectfully. People who are silent will likely get passed over for promotions. Unfortunately, this is how it works most of the time.

* Do not embarrass any coworkers in public. If you must, do it privately.

* Make your boss look good. It's hard to move up if your boss doesn't like you.

* Ally with the people who are important. Set up 1 on 1s with them. Talk to them. Ask them how you can help them. Praise their work.

These things only work if you're actually competent, of course.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work? by misja111 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:35AM (#34593527)

I guess your points are all valid, but it reads like selling your soul to get promoted ..

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Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work? by jwmoz on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:41AM (#34593557)

It's playing the game.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work? by rqtwteye on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:37AM (#34593884)

It reads more like common sense to me. And none of these are “selling your soul”. I could give you a list of much worse tactics that unfortunately tend to be quite successful.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work? by senttoschool on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:52AM (#34593972)

Well, the topic is asking how to self-promote at work. I think in the ideal world, we don't have to do that. But I live in the real world.

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Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work? by senttoschool on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:49AM (#34593953)

The first point really helped me when I had a crappy boss who didn't like me but still liked to take my credit. I essentially jumped over my boss to make sure the executives, including the CEO, could see the work I was doing. Sending them reports directly from my email was the way to do it. My boss just got in the way. It really helped. Eventually, I even developed a relationship with the CEO. When I decided to leave the company, the CEO had a meeting with me and begged me to stay because he read all my email reports. This was a 3,000 something people tech company.

I know I also gave the advice to make your boss look good, which is plan A. If plan A doesn't work because your boss doesn't advocate for you in return, then you need to leap over your boss. Develop a relationship with your boss' boss so that you could ask to either get promoted to a position equal to your boss, take your boss' position, or transfer to a different boss.

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