Opinion
Every time a new financial year rolls around, most of us are hoping for a pay rise. Whether we’ve worked especially hard and are hoping to have those efforts recognised, want our loyalty to our company rewarded, or simply need more money to keep up with the cost of living, there are many valid reasons to be hoping for a salary bump come July.
Though many people think that pay rises are only accessible via a promotion or through taking on extra responsibilities, that’s certainly not true of all industries. Often, pay rises are offered for doing the job you have exceptionally well, going beyond the remit of the position or when the company has had a successful year.
It’s a huge mistake to think that pay rises happen on that one day you have a conversation with your manager. Dionne Gain But just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, pay rises aren’t awarded on a whim. So if you were among those lucky enough to score a pay rise recently, congratulations. If you weren’t, I’m genuinely very sorry.
Getting turned down for a raise can really knock the wind out of your sails and sour how you feel about your job and your workplace. But with that disappointment comes three primary options: you can stay in the same job but change your behaviour, you can look for another job, or you can start laying the groundwork for next year’s promotion now.
For fairly self-explanatory reasons, I don
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