Are You Ready for a Promotion?
Answer 5 quick questions to find out how close you actually are — and what's holding you back.
How This Promotion Readiness Quiz Works
This quiz evaluates your promotion readiness across five dimensions drawn from the How to Get Promoted at Work guide. Research shows that only 36% of companies are “career development champions” with robust promotion programs — which means most professionals need to proactively position themselves for advancement.
- Next-Level Work — are you already operating beyond your current job description?
- Visibility — do decision-makers know what you've accomplished?
- Skill Evolution — have your skills shifted from execution to strategy and leadership?
- Advocacy — have you explicitly discussed promotion with your manager?
- Documented Case — can you present quantified achievements using the CAR method?
Your answers produce a score from 0 to 15, mapped to one of four profiles: Promotion Ready, Almost There, Positioning Phase, or Starting Line. Each profile includes specific, actionable next steps — not just a label.
Why Most People Get Stuck
The most common mistake is optimizing for the wrong skill set. Individual contributor roles reward execution, accuracy, and speed. Higher roles reward decision-making, prioritization, delegation, and strategic thinking. If you scored low on Skill Evolution, that's often the hidden bottleneck — you're training for the wrong job.