How to Get The Raise You Deserve
A Proven but Unorthodox Method
This article is about how things are, not how they are supposed to be.
If you are performing good and valuable work your employer should recognise it, at least with some sort of monetary reward. That doesn’t always happen and this is not fair.
However, there is a way to fix it. It is proven and it will deliver its expected results subject to the two conditions below:
1) The company you are working for is financially successful. If the business is going under, there is very little room for a raise.
2) You need to be a key employee. You don’t have to be the best or the hardest working, but you need to ensure that your employer will suffer a greater short term financial cost in losing you and hire someone else instead of giving you a raise. If you are not in such a position, don’t even try it.
What you have to do is simple: Resign.
You need to formally resign as it is not enough to threaten to resign or to manifest your discontent. Especially if your work for a big organisation, your resignation needs to be in writing and you need to copy in your HR department. Formality is key for this gamble to succeed.
