Don't wait for promotion - promote yourself.
Here are four "If this, then that" paragraphs for you.
If you are enthusiastic about what you do, if you talk enthusiastically about your career and about what you have achieved, but with modesty rather than seeming to boast, then it will have several likely effects.
If you are employed, then you are much more likely to be retained as a valuable employee. It will also mean that you are much more likely to be offered a promotion.
If you are a job seeker, then you are also more likely to be asked back for the next stage of the recruitment process - apart, of course, from those weird interviews where you are asked to assemble flat pack furniture or calculate the area of a triangle!
If enthusiasm is a challenge for you, then try to capture the attitude you have when you are relating a fascinating or amusing incident from your favourite hobby, holiday or sport.