Good Work is Not Enough to Get a Promotion
Posted in Graduate Experience on Feb 10th, 2009
The Best Assignment Doesn’t Win
You don’t get it! You have worked longer hours, produced better work but that other moron still got the promotion over you!
Being the smartest cookie in the cookie jar may have been enough to ace the exam or assignment, but in the office there is more to the equation than who is the smartest or who produces the best work.
Your talent is the starting point, not the selling point, because everybody else in your graduate intake is also talented, all in different ways. Talent is what got them through the selection process, just like you. Like all competitive environments, promotions (i.e. power) must contested.
