If a promotion is one of your goals for the next year, are you doing everything you can to make it happen?

如果晉升是你明年的目標之一，你是否做了所有的努力來達到這個目標呢？

It would be nice if hard work and talent would automatically lead to a job with more pay, more responsibility, and a better title. But in most cases, it takes more than that to move to the next level.

如果勤勞和智慧能夠自動給你帶來一份薪資更高、責任更大、職位更好的工作的話，那是不錯的。但是很多時候，要想達到另一個高度需要做出更多努力。

Make Yourself Known

讓你自己出名

Look at the job you'd like to have a year from now. Who selects candidates for this position? Who does that person work with and ask for advice?

從現在開始看看你一年后想要的工作。誰為這個職位挑選候選人呢？那個人和誰一起共事？他征求誰的意見呢？

Then you systematically sit down and think about how you're going to make contact. There are lots of ways to do this. You can volunteer to serve on a committee with the people you need to know, for example. You can forward them articles or information that relate to their expertise.

然后，你應該坐下來，系統地考慮下該如何跟這些人聯絡上。有很多方法可以聯絡上他們。比如說，你可以去你想認識的人所在的社團做義工。你可以給他們轉發和他們專業有關的文章或信息。

Help Your Boss Succeed

幫助你的老板獲得成功

Often, your boss is the person who will decide if you'll be promoted. But even if not, your boss will almost certainly be consulted. So impressing your boss is a top priority.

通常來說，你的老板是決定你是否升遷的人。即使不是直接決定人，你老板的意見肯定也會被參考。所以讓你的上司對你印象深刻是第一重要的。

Marianne Adoradio, a recruiter and career counselor in Silicon Valley, suggests focusing on your company's key goals, then talking with your boss to find out which are most important in your department. "It's really important to be aware of what is going to make your boss successful, what is most important to him or her."

Marianne Adoradio是硅谷的一位職業咨詢教授，也是招聘人員，她建議將重點放在公司的關鍵目標上，然后和你的上司談談什么對你的部門來說是最重要的?！傲私馐裁茨茏屇愕纳纤境晒Α⑺?她最在乎的是哪些，這些都是非常重要的。”

Start Doing the Job

開始工作

You don't want to stage an office coup and start making personnel decisions that are your boss' responsibility. But you need to show that you can work at a higher level than your current position.

你最好別登上辦公室政變的舞臺，越權幫你的上司做出那些人事決策。但是你需要證明自己能夠在一個比目前更高的職位工作。

People are easily promoted when they show that they can already do parts of the job they want to move into. If you want to move from being a manager to a group manager, start taking on responsibility for what a group manager does. Start thinking like they do.

在人們已經在做那些目標層次的工作時，他們就很容易獲得晉升。如果你想從一名經理晉升到部門經理的話，那就從主動承擔部門經理的任務開始吧。開始用他們的方式思考。

Then you can make the case that "I'm already doing the job; I just need the title."

那么你就可以讓情況變為“我已經做了這份工作，我現在需要的只是這個頭銜而已?！?/FONT>