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Write the case for my promotion

Promotion season, and you need a document your manager can take upstairs.

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Help me write a promotion case my manager can defend in a calibration meeting.

Structure:
1. **Claim.** One sentence: the level I am arguing for and why I am already operating there.
2. **Evidence.** Per expectation of the target level, the specific work that demonstrates it, with dates and outcomes. Use only what I supply.
3. **Scope and durability.** Show that the work was not a one-off: repeated behaviour, widening blast radius, others relying on it.
4. **The gaps.** Where my evidence is thin or missing. Say this honestly, because the committee will find it anyway, and suggest what I could add in the next quarter.
5. **Who can corroborate each point.**

Do not inflate anything. If a piece of evidence does not support the level I am claiming, say so.

Level expectations:


What I have done:

Making it yours

  • Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
  • Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
  • If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.

Raises and moves. Promotion cases, reviews, offers, hard conversations and deciding whether to leave.

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