You've been hired for over a year, you've worked harder in the last few months and your salary is stagnating:it's time to ask for a raise. First of all, the important thing is to take stock of your skills and the evolution of your missions to know how to defend yourself well in front of your boss. Don't wait for the annual interview at the beginning or end of the year:all your colleagues will choose this moment to put themselves forward. So let's get ready and go!
Open a new document in your computer, sit down with a good tea and ask yourself:do I deserve this raise and why? How have you been important to your company?
A little secret to help you:put yourself in your employer's shoes and ask yourself what would seem important to him, and what would convince him. Select your strengths using these clues and then develop them, each time finding the greatest number of examples.
Now that you have highlighted your skills, take out the arguments that prove your effectiveness. List the missions you have completed that have allowed your company to score points. Show him the sales figures, the positive feedback,… In short, like any boss, he wants results. Give it to him, take out the evidence.
Being a team player and playing corporate helps! Now it's time to put some ointment on showing her commitment to the box. How essential are you to the life of the company? What have you brought to your colleagues? Did you train them? Have you enabled the development of new, more efficient ways of working? List all those "sides" to show how important you are here.
You inquired about what colleagues in similar positions were getting in other companies. Tell your boss without insisting:he might take it as a threat. We see, we show that we can find better elsewhere, but without blackmailing. Always stay very subtle and adopt the "air of nothing".
Let's not beat around the bush. Without being threatening, make a proposal for a raise in line with the means of the company and the market. Asking too much could backfire, with your boss now seeing you as an ungrateful, arrogant employee who is far removed from the realities of the job.
Good luck!
