Careers · Work
move up the ladder
advance professionally
To move up the ladder means to progress to more senior positions.
This vs that
She wants to move up the ladder in the company.
She wants to get promoted this year.
Hear it in real life
Are you happy staying in the same role?
For now, but I’d like to move up the ladder eventually.
He is keen to move up the ladder, but he still wants to keep some hands-on work in his role.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
The idiom is a natural way to talk about career ambition without sounding overly formal.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
move up the career or corporate ladder
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about careers.
move into ___
I'm hoping to move into project management.
Careers words
Work · Careers: the words around “move up the ladder”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
She wants to move up the ladder.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
move up the ladder
advance professionally
“He is keen to move up the ladder, but he still wants to keep some hands-on work in his role.”
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