Long before she left the corporate world to advise others on career advancement, Tabatha Jones didn’t get a promotion in a way she says felt “completely unexpected.”

She was, after all, the person at the major telecom company her colleagues would consider the natural successor to her then-boss, who was getting ready to vacate the director-level role.

“I was her next person on the bench. I was sitting in the room when it was announced it was someone else. And it was very hard to contain my emotions,” Jones recalls. After the meeting, Jones “just looked at her and said, ‘I’m not feeling very well. I’m going home.’” And when she came back the next day, she “had a very honest conversation with her about how hard I had worked, my accomplishments, and why I felt I deserved that job.”

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