Tech Career Skills: Getting Promoted

Learn how to make the case for your promotion, with steps and techniques you can use to prepare between promotion cycles.

Introduction

• Get promoted in your tech job

1. Understanding the Promotion Process

• How promotion cycles work
• Promotion ladders, competencies, and levels
• Promotion committees
• Role of the manager and the engineers

2. Execution and Results

• What the committee is looking for by way of impact
• How engineers can show impact

3. Creating Efficiency

• What the committee is looking for by way of efficiency
• How engineers can show efficiency

4. Software Engineering

• What the committee is looking for in this key competency
• How engineers can demonstrate coding chops

5. Design and Architecture

• What the committee is looking for by way of design skill
• How engineers can show design vision

6. Collaboration

• What the committee is looking for in collaboration
• How engineers can show collaboration

7. Citizenship

• What the committee is looking for by way of citizenship
• How engineers can show citizenship

8. Specific Promotion-Related Activities

• Creating an impact resume
• How to cultivate references
• How to prep for promotion interviews
• How to process promotion-related feedback

Conclusion

• Boost your career