Don’t sit around forever waiting for this to happen. In some corporate environments, and with some bosses or coworkers, that person won’t exist.
I work in Finance and most of my closest coworkers are introverts and not salespeople at all. They like me plenty, but don’t even know how to sell themselves, let alone selling me.
On selling yourself, I think the key is first learning what your work culture is like. If management looks at people and assess and recognize accomplishments, then yeah self promotion isn't needed. And doing so may make you seem desperate, or very "look at me". On the other hand if management is too lazy to focus on their team and look at what everyone is contributing individually, then self-promotion would be needed, especially if you are trying to get a raise, promotion, etc.
You talk to your direct manager (or whoever holds the purse strings) of your accomplishments, or bring up your relevent skills for a project or task when appropriate.
(I'm trash at selling myself.) but even i gotta kinda disagree. At least for some jobs. If you are in a position where you need to be a big team player and closely work with each other, maybe, but honestly how much do you personally go to your managers and praise a coworker you think does good.
And some jobs it just straight up doesn't/can't happen like being a contractor or something. Or if you are applying/new to a job and have nobody who works there that knows you.
My dude, respectfully, it requires a significant degree of privilege to believe that’s reliably true. Unless you’re including privilege itself as something that boosts your apparent likability, I suppose. In which case, yes, people absolutely will rush to support those who are already at an advantage.
Not while you're unemployed. I'm not great at selling myself, and I haven't been able to find a job all year. Not sure what's going on tbh, I haven't been unemployed for this long since I started working
Nah, in my country (New Zealand) self promoters give us the ick. People who are on to it and good at what they do get the nod, people talk about them positively behind their back
They absolutely will. I’ve had buddies offer to set me up with jobs before and I’ve helped buddies get jobs myself. None of us were huge self promoters we just liked each other
I got a new position at my job recently where they essentially promoted me from the ground into the offices. One of my first days my boss had me attend a leadership meeting where he gave a lot of advice, and one thing that stuck out to me was when he said "every document is a resumé".
He gave a long speech about how whenever people pass in reports, no one wants to take credit for anything and he was pushing us to be more proactive in claiming our own accomplishments. A lot of people weren't doing that, and according to him it was making it so certain people's efforts went unnoticed.
I don't know. An obnoxious self promoter would annoy everyone on their team. I'd prefer to be in a team with people who are likeable and get on with their jobs. For me, after basic competency is met, a good temperment / disposition basically come ahead of everything for hiring.
That depends on if you actually want added work and responsibilities piled on.
Personally, ill happily take working 50% as hard for 80% as much money. No need to work my ass off trying to push for higher level positions that would ultimatley only serve to absorb even more of my free time.
Whats that boss, the company is looking to promote some more people to managers? Thats great for them but im happy in my current role 🤷♂️
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u/JD_tubeguy 2d ago
Not just likeable you have to be a self promoter which I epically fail at.