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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > How Do I Get My Job To Create A New Management Position For Me?
 
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moana
Jun 18, 2005

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rscott posted:

The title is fairly summary. I want to convince the upper management of the company that I work for to create a new position for me to leverage my unique skill set, and to give myself a substantial increase in wages while converting from hourly to salary.
No, you want to implement a plan you've been thinking about that would save the company $X in man hours and create more efficient workflows that will remove Y and Z bottlenecks in production. In order to do this, you want to take A, B, and C responsibilities off the plate of these employees to assist them in being more productive with their work and streamline operations in general.

"I have some ideas of how we could restructure my position to better support the company's goal of Blahblah, who do you think I could talk to about this?" If you have a direct supervisor, I would go to them first if you think they'll have your back, or if there's multiple pick the supervisor who likes you most/thinks you can help THEM out the most.

Repeat: this is not about helping you or getting you to salary. This is about helping the company/your boss, and focus on getting the position created. That is what you are selling. Once they buy into it, then you can bring up what title/pay will make sense for your new role.

You may decide if it's better for you in the long run to get a title change to manager or director or whatever and use that to change jobs (it likely is). If you can work for a smaller company and do all of these things, you may get a better position right off the bat. Are you looking actively for other jobs?

I really hope they're not planning to lay you off but take an honest look at what you wrote and see if this could be the case.

Edit: and where are you located?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > How Do I Get My Job To Create A New Management Position For Me?