HR can't tell you

HR can't tell you so I will HR professional not working at your company Internal candidates often get a head start Not intentional, but no matter how much red tape processes mitigation that your company tries to do, a business is run by people and people behaviors will always override processes and written formulas. Which means if you are internal, it's easier for you to find email addresses of the right people to talk to. Also people don't want to have a confronting conversation with an individual if they're challenging or asking things that an external candidate wouldn't have access to ask. So often times they'll just get their way and end up getting more information than someone who is applying externally ever would. You can change your job title I had no idea this was a thing until I worked in HR. And yeah, people would just be like, I don't really like having assistant as part of my job title, or I don't like having coordinator as part of my job title, or whatever the thing is. So you can just have a conversation and I would say first of all, go to your manager because if you go directly to HR, they're going to go to your manager anyway. So the only way it will become difficult is if in your company, certain job titles come with certain salaries, which often is the case. If you are an advisor via partner, like that's just not an interchangeable thing that you can use in a job title, but generally, if it's something small, if you feel like, oh, well, I'm doing this and this job title does not reflect X, Y and Z, you can change it. You know what I mean? So definitely consider that if you are looking to really strategize your career and also your purse. Leaving your company to return gives you more dollar. And you have more negotiating power. You are able to leverage the experiences, the learnings, even the job titles, all the company names that you went to elsewhere and be able to build a better case to say why you should be getting paid more. It really is that age old trope of like, if you're already seen as part of that company, like value isn't always as easily received, whereas if you're coming from outside, it's like, oh, shiny new. What can you bring to the table that we don't already have? You know what I mean? So definitely consider that if you are looking to really strategize your career and also your purse. Follow to Thrive