1. Salary Increase

Although your job performance isn’t easily quantifiable, you know you’re a top performer who is collaborative and has built influence and trust with colleagues and stakeholders. You’re a natural leader who’s great at creating order from chaos. You would like a raise of €20,000, and having validated this with three former colleagues of yours who are still in the industry, you know this is reasonable.

2. Job Assignment

You have your sights set on a promotion sometime in the next year, so you would love to manage a challenging new project and get some more diverse experience under your belt.

3. Professional Development

On some level you do have your next job in mind, so you’re always looking for ways to prepare for your next move. There’s a big industry conference in New York in a few months that you’d love to go to, for both the content and networking potential.

You’re not sure how this would play out without a formal promotion, and you don’t want to agree to extra work with no reward. On the other hand, if it was a good resume-builder, you might consider taking on something extra.