Could I suggest you find out more about they are suggesting you do. What you might think as "broad scoped" isn't in their minds. Then work with your boss to see what opportunities you can be exposed to, to provide the necessary evidence to get yourself promoted. This is assuming you want to keep working for the same organisation.
Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 5 March 2011 2:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Morale killer... vent mode:on I asked for a promotion to Sr. Systems Engineer but I have been denied. Talking to my boss she feels I am qualified but her boss disagrees - not because I don't fit the roles and skill set of a Sr. SE as listed in our job description, but because she wants to "see more broad scoped project proposals". Yeah sorry that my evaluation of products used across the enterprise for encrypting our laptops (chose PGP), remote access (went with RDS), 3rd party patching (Shavlik), and then doing the work of standing up the servers and installing configuring, deploying and then handing off of said items all in the last 12 months isn't broad enough... "You're really great at what you do and you meet the job description but it's not enough, sorry". Some of you guys can relate, right? I've only been doing IT professionally for 16 years...and admin-y stuff for 12 of that. Vent mode: off David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
