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Talk to your supervisor. And maybe check with HR on their promo cycles.
Most companies I’ve worked at won’t consider a raise until you’ve been at the company a year. Talk to your manager and let them know you’re ambitious and anxious to move up the ladder, and ask where you need experience/training/etc to move up, and possibly ask if they have resources to help you do that.
In my experience merit raises are on an annual review schedule that correlates to the company’s fiscal year. In some cases a performance review immediately precedes any raise, and in others there are a few months between performance reviews and compensation reviews (raises). No one with under 90 days of seniority has ever been eligible for either a performance review or raise.
Many companies have policies that an employee has to have been in their current role for at least a year before being eligible for a promotion. That said, I personally have been promoted 4 separate times without having a year in the previous role. Exemptions are made based on the company’s needs and available candidates.
For example, early in my career I worked in an undesirable sales role in the consumer goods and services industry (intended to be temporary). My boss left a few months after I started, so I applied for his job. As far as I’m aware I was both the only internal candidate and the only one with an actionable sales plan, so I got the promotion even though I had less than 6 months with the company.
More recently I’ve worked for B2B SaaS startups and have received my first promotion at my last two employers around the 6th month mark. These were rapidly growing companies in a very technical niche market (read: steep learning curve), so there was a big incentive to promote internally. I’m also a very ambitious person and expressed interest in leadership from the very beginning.
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How long have you been with the company?
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I’m glad you’ve found a place where you can be yourself again! I had a similar experience recently and it’s a great feeling.
Though, I wouldn’t ask for a raise or promotion two months into a new job. That’s going to come off wrong in a lot of places. Usually you don’t get fully up to speed until six months in and typically most places aren’t going to give you a raise until a year in when you’ve had a full year to prove yourself.
Promotions are usually on certain cycles and as a manager, I’d be wary of anyone who asked for one within their first few months. I want to see how they do in the job for at least a year before we start having those conversations. Two months is not long enough to get a sense of their full skill sets and how they react in different situations.
Why do you want a raise or promotion so soon?
I think you should ask your manager how review and raise cycles work so you know when they happen and have context. I’d also suggest asking for feedback on how you’re doin and what they expect from you by 90 days, 6 months, 1 year, etc.