Dealing with disappointment – internal promotion
I’m prompted to write this after receiving an email from one of my clients. He was dissatisfied in his work, and had contacted me to help him get the job he wanted. What drives him most of all is a job that will use his skills, give him room to learn and thus to earn more money. As we discussed his options, one was to seek internal promotion. Â
It wasn’t a major promotion but would be to the next level and would help to achieve his objectives of room to learn and using his skills. We discussed how to perform well at interview and he got through the first stage. However he didn’t get the job offer, indeed no one was offered a job.He asked for feedback and was told that he didn’t have enough experience for the job, so it sounded like they wanted someone who could hit the ground running.
What I think he needs to do is to arrange a meeting with the HR department to talk about his future. He needs to prepare carefully so he can demonstrate how he matched up to the key requirements of the job and to seek advice on how he can get some development to enable him to stand a better chance of being successful next time.
By staying calm, and listening, and demonstrating his commitment to the organisation he is likely to be seen as someone mature and the organisation may well seek to develop him.Of course, they may also be uninterested, in which case you treat this as a signal to move on to a new company.
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