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Promotion Case Building

A promotion case built on the written next-level criteria, evidence mapped to each one, a manager and sponsors ready to argue it, and a plan for the cycle, the panel and the answer.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Promotion Case Building, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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🧭 Career Growth

Promotion Case Building

Building a compelling promotion case with evidence of impact, sponsor support and a clear understanding of the next level's expectations.

  1. Written criteria for the level above yours
  2. Map of how promotions work at your employer
  3. Next-level gap score against the ladder
  4. Promotion intent conversation with your manager
  5. Agreed promotion plan with target cycle
  6. Evidence sweep for the promotion window
  7. Before and after numbers for your main work
  8. Scope audit of your current workload
  9. This cycle or next cycle decision
  10. Stakeholder map of who decides your promotion
  11. Monthly evidence-to-criteria mapping
  12. Promotion slot in your one-to-ones
  13. Quarterly gap review against the level guide
  14. Peer feedback on next-level behaviours
  15. Impact log for flagship projects
  16. Monthly update to your skip-level manager
  17. Sponsor briefings during the promotion year
  18. Stretch work pipeline for next-level scope
  19. Decision records that show judgement
  20. Annual promotion cycle countdown
  21. Writing impact statements that survive calibration
  22. Quantifying impact when numbers are messy
  23. Reading a level guide like a committee member
  24. One-page promotion narrative
  25. Presenting your case to a promotion panel
  26. How calibration and promotion committees decide
  27. Telling the story of a cancelled or failed project
  28. Stretch assignment for the biggest gap
  29. Handing off current-level work to make room
  30. Fixing the weakness named in your last review
  31. Choosing the three projects that anchor the case
  32. Written endorsements from peers and partners
  33. Mock review with a recently promoted peer
  34. Making glue work visible in the case
  35. Promotion packet submission
  36. Preparing your manager for calibration
  37. Promotion panel or interview day
  38. Promotion outcome conversation
  39. Re-plan after a not yet
  40. Confirming the new level, pay and expectations
  41. Engineer case for senior level
  42. Engineer case for staff or principal
  43. Manager case for senior manager or director
  44. Promotion case after leave or on reduced hours
  45. Promotion case when your manager changes
  46. Promotion in a company without a formal ladder
  47. Proposing a new role as your promotion
  48. Writing promotion cases for your direct reports
  49. Serving on a promotion committee
  50. Two-level promotion strategy

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Written criteria for the level above yours

Most promotion decisions are made against a document, a career ladder or level guide, that many candidates have skimmed once and never quoted. Getting the current version for both your level and the next one, and reading them side by side, turns a vague ambition into a list of specific behaviours a committee will look for.

First tasks

  • Search the intranet or HR portal for the level guide for your role family
  • Copy your level and the target level into one side-by-side document
  • Highlight every phrase that changes between the two levels
  • List the criteria you cannot interpret as questions for your manager
  • Check whether a revised level guide has been published @recurring(yearly)

Map of how promotions work at your employer

Promotions at most employers run on a fixed calendar with a packet deadline, a calibration meeting and a committee or panel, and missing the nomination window can cost a whole cycle. Knowing who nominates, who decides, what format the case takes and when each step happens lets you plan backwards from real dates.

First tasks

  • Find the HR page or policy that describes the promotion cycle
  • Write the nomination, packet and calibration dates on one page
  • Ask a colleague promoted last cycle how the process really ran
  • Confirm the process map with your manager in your next 1:1

Next-level gap score against the ladder

Scoring yourself criterion by criterion, with an example for each score, shows where you are already operating at the target level and where the case is thin. Doing it before talking to your manager means the conversation starts from evidence rather than a feeling that you are ready.

First tasks

  • Create a skills matrix with one row per next-level criterion
  • Score each row and write one supporting example beside it
  • Mark the three weakest criteria as priority gaps
  • Ask your manager to score the same matrix independently
  • Re-score the matrix from scratch before each promotion cycle @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Promotion Case Building, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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