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You might love your job, be completely happy with your salary, and enjoy spending time with your co-workers. If that’s the case, you’re fortunate indeed; most of us feel there is something more even if we do like our work. Sometimes this feeling becomes stronger, and we know it’s time to do something about it; it’s time to take your job to the next level and get that promotion or gain the progress that you have been looking for. Here are some helpful tips to bear in mind when you want to progress at work.

Don’t Keep It to Yourself

If you really want to progress in your job, don’t keep that idea to yourself. If you don’t make your intentions known, your employer won’t know what you want and won’t be able to consider you for any possible promotions or opportunities. Ask for a meeting with your boss so that you can discuss how you can advance within the company. You’ll need to prepare information about how much you can bring to another role, and if you can show your employer that you know the business well and understand where it is heading, that will all show you in a positive light.

Take Your Work Seriously

Just because you want to do something different, have more responsibility, or earn more money, that doesn’t mean you will be able to – unless you work for yourself, it is your employer or managers who will make this determination. Therefore, you need to ensure that you take your work seriously. You can do this by:

• Dressing in a neat and tidy fashion
• Arriving on time and not leaving early
• Making sure you always have the company’s interests at heart
• Joining in with meetings, having your say in discussions, and generally giving feedback (whether asked to or not)

Keep Learning

To show your employers that you are keen to take things further and ensure that you are confident in your new position, you should always keep learning. This might be in the form of taking any additional training opportunities that your workplace offers you, or you might take the initiative and find your own training to take part in, such as a leadership course at Deakin University Online.

Of course, your learning doesn’t have to be directly linked to your work. It could be something that you’ve always wanted to know more about, so you’ve taken it upon yourself to learn more either through a course or by reading more about the subject. All of this can look great on a resume.

Don’t Wait To Be Told

One of the signs of great potential and perhaps even leadership skills is not waiting to be told what to do, but instead to use your own initiative and do what needs to be done without instructions. Of course, don’t overstep the mark and do too much, or you could be seen as having gone too far, but doing your own work and then some – within your remit, ideally – is something that will get you praise and credit. The more you can do this, the more your manager will see that you have great potential and could go much further in the company. This could open up all kinds of exciting opportunities for you.