How quickly are people promoted?

Top Employee Response

Depends, stores need to have people on what they call the bench ready to send to interviews as needed. They should have a few ready each year to look good on their part. Really depends on how many stores are in your area. Coming from the Austin TX area that has plenty of stores we typically had 4 a year going to interviews to be signed off and ready to put in position in stores in the area. I personally went from seasonal to GSA within a few months then to GSTL in about 2 years to SR-TL after holding about 4 different TL positions. But I do agree many times it's all about how much you kiss up to people. I was always told you can't get ETL without a degree but knew people without a degree who got promoted over those who had a degree. Simply because they were friends more with HR, also helps to look like Ken and Barbie. I had an old really hard working SR-TL leave because she was tired of being told she didn't dress the part even though she had a bachelor's degree.

It's fairly easy to get promoted to team lead, above that it's who you know and how well they like you.

Promotions are very rare. For many positions the company prefers to hire from outside.