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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

549: Who Gets Raises and Promotions? Rick Gillis Reveals the Metric that Predicts our Fate.

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Rick Gillis shares how knowing and improving your “quotient” can help you get raises and promotions at work. 


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The factor that determines your compensation at work. 

2) How to speak up for your work to your boss. 

3) The perfect time to bring up your accomplishments. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep549 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT RICK — 

Rick Gillis is a speaker, author, and personal career advisor. He has spent over two decades writing books and sharing techniques to manage and maximize careers across the country. He is the founder of the Richard Gillis Company, LLC which provides training and career coaching to help job seekers land the best possible position at the highest possible pay. 

Rick has appeared on several media outlets like Forbes.com, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal. Rick and his wife, Mary, live in Texas where he spends his free time riding along the Texas gulf coast on his Harley or in his music room and art studio.

• Book: "PROMOTE!: Your work does not speak for itself. You do."

• Book: “The Quotient”

• LinkedIn: Rick Gillis

• LinkedIn Article: "(In response to last week's post:)YOU are Responsible for Pointing Out Your Wins"

• LinkedIn Article: "It’s OK for Your Boss to Take Credit for Your Work (Ouch!)"

• Website: RickGillis.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

• Book: The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired: Performance-based Hiring Series by Lou Adler

• Movie: The Imitation Game


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here.

0:21.0

For episode 549 with Rick Gillis.

0:23.2

Rick is going to share how if you know about it improve this ratio he calls the quotient

0:28.4

that can go a long long way in boosting your probability of getting raises and promotions.

0:34.0

You'll learn one, the factor that determines your compensation at work.

0:37.6

Two, how to speak up for your work to your boss and three, the perfect time to bring up your accomplishments so if you want to

0:44.7

check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to out as we've referenced drop

0:47.8

on by awesome at your job dot com slash epp 549 now here's Rick story Rick Gillis is a speaker, author, and a personal career advisor. He has spent over two decades writing books and sharing techniques to manage and maximize careers across the country.

1:01.0

He's the founder of the Richard Gillis Company LLC

1:03.5

which provides training and career coaching to help job seekers land the best

1:06.9

possible position at the highest possible pay. Rick has appeared on several

1:10.7

media outlets such as Forbes.com and PR in the Wall Street Journal.

1:14.0

Rick and his wife Mary live in Texas, where he spends his free time riding along the Texas

1:18.4

Gulf Coast on his Harley or in his music room and art studio.

1:22.6

Big thanks to Rick for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

1:26.2

Check them out.

1:27.6

Now, here's Rick.

1:30.0

Rick, thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome, at your Job Podcast.

1:33.8

You bet, Pete.

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