Tales of taking a step up

[usedtobeaylis]

I'm currently looking around at new opportunities and started off looking at roles around the same level, but I've now started looking at ones that are actually a step up and it's quite daunting. Strangely it hadn't even occurred to me until today that I could do that 😆

Does anyone have good tales of staying at the same level for a while in their job and then take the plunge to step up, and how did it go? Did you stay in the same sector or need to switch sectors in order to take the step?

Does anyone have good tales of staying at the same level for a while in their job and then take the plunge to step up, and how did it go?

I'm not sure if I'm missing something in your post, but isn't this just what people normally do ?
Unless there is something about your job you hate, then I'd have thought the main reason for moving to a new job is a new challenge and a promotion.

So yes, I've done it, and yes, each time it was the right step at the right time.

I’d agree it’s pretty normal! I had what felt like a big jump up a few years ago and it was just because I had seen a colleague do it and that gave me the confidence to try, and I had a bit of headspace open up in my personal life with kids getting a bit older, so I had a bit more energy to put to it.

If it’s feeling daunting, could you do anything to make it easier? Shadow someone more senior, volunteer to get particular experience you need, go though the interview process anyway and see it as a learning experience etc.

Isn't that how all promotions work?!

I mean it's spelled out quite obviously over the course of the post they I'm asking specifically for stories about about staying at the same level and then making a conscious decision to step up, the stories behind the decision, how it worked out, if you stayed in the same company etc.

But if everyone wants to pretend they didn't understand, go ahead 🙃

The more I'm thinking about it the more I feel confident that it would be the right move, like you it probably has needed a bit of a nudge, and re-discovering a bit of confidence really. Was it in the same organisation?

Yep same company

How rude.

I've lifted you off 'Unanswered threads' to try to help, and all you can do is be rude

Nobody's 'pretending'.
We genuinely don't understand what you are asking.
People are explaining that what you describe is a normal thing to happen.
You do a job at a certain level and then you apply for one at a higher level once you feel ready to. That will be to do with experience, in some jobs to do with qualifications, and to do with confidence and to do with opportunity.
What is it you want people to say ?