..... apply for it.
I've been in my current job now for 2 years as an admin assistant. The admin manager position who I worked closely with is now a HR manager position (change of name, but a lot of similar duties). She is on reduced duties leading to retirement and in her absence most people come to me with their problems. She will be retiring in a year and over the last couple months I have been asked by several support staff if I was going to apply for it and that I would be a good fit. I never really thought too much of those people asking but today one of the managment staff asked me if I had plans to apply for it. She suggested I talk to our Director to see what the requirements will be so that I could start working towards them. I'm not quite sure how to approach this because I'm his admin assistant. So to go to him saying that I'm looking to not be his assistant anymore but would like to apply for the other position within our department seems a little awkward. There's also no guarantees that I would even get this position but it would certainly be nice though and I would have a year to start "bettering" myself for it. I'm also thinking I should talk to the HR manager and see if she can give me some guidance about the position and maybe give me some more duties so that I can start molding myself for a shot at it. But if in the end I don't get it, it will be strange still being the admin person and working closely with this person. Has anyone else gone through something similar? How did you go about things?