How Long To Wait For A Promotion And Other Career Moves

Our guidance on corporate timing and waiting for changes that you expect.

We receive a great many emails that ask us if some amount of time is reasonable to have been waiting for a raise/a promotion/a change in responsibilities/a location change/a job change and if the writer should now consider taking different action. The answer is usually, that your manager has less power than you think, corporate systems are more complex and slower than you think, and yes, this is a reasonable amount of time to have to wait. In this guidance, we’ll give you more background on why we give this answer, how long is reasonable, and what to do while you wait.