On Peter’s LinkedIn Profile there are two questions that have received some excellent answers:
At what age do you think age discrimination (for older workers) starts?
What should older workers do about age discrimination?
Age discrimination is TOUGH. When I started my job search I was 32. I felt OLD compared to the college kids that were getting [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, LinkedIn, Required Reading, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
This is the fifth in a series of eight posts, each linked to one of eight categories in the Career Resumes blog. These posts sum up the best pieces of advice, tips, direction, insights, and answers discovered and shared on the blog by Allen Voivod, Chief Blogger for Career-Resumes.com from October 2006 to September 2008.
If [...]
tags: Salary & the Market author: Allen Voivod comments: 2 Comments
Weak job market. Rising gas, food, and energy prices. Slumping stock market.
Suddenly, salary questions are getting a bit more complicated.
If ever there was a time to consider the broader job offer package and what it delivers, this is it. From flexible work hours to telecommuting, 401(k) matching to stock options, the base salary you get [...]
tags: Job Benefits, Salary & the Market author: Allen Voivod comments: No Comments
You want the truth about recession? Here’s the truth about recession. It takes two quarters – six months! – of negative growth before anyone can officially declare a recession.
For anyone to be calling “Recession!” right now is the equivalent of calling “Shotgun!” for the front passenger seat before anyone’s decided to even leave the house.
All [...]
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On the plane from New Hampshire to California the other day, I had the pleasure of reading the latest installment of Donald Asher’s “Save My Career” column in US Airways Magazine.
(Okay, I’ll freely admit that half the reason I was flipping through the content of the magazine was because both the Sudoku and crossword [...]
tags: Salary & the Market author: Allen Voivod comments: 1 Comment
As you start the new year, you’ve probably already know your financial picture for 2008. You received your performance review, you got whatever bonus you’re going to get, the percentage of your salary raise is about to be factored in to your first paycheck of the year…
And how do you feel about it? Do you [...]
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As part of the process of writing for this blog, sometimes I go sailing off into the wild blue yonder of the Internet to see what’s new in the world of resumes and related job seeking activities. Sometimes it comes to me through email, and sometimes I just stumble upon it.
In the case of today’s [...]
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Big names in professional staffing and online job sites have been joining forces the last couple of years to sponsor and release on of the most interesting salary and job market surveys out there. And if you want a glimpse at what the future of executive and professional hiring looks like, you won’t find a [...]
tags: Salary & the Market author: Allen Voivod comments: 1 Comment
When it comes to salary, no hiring manager wants to be the first to quote a salary number.
Whether it’s the phrase “Salary based on qualifications,” “Pay based on experience,” “Send salary history with your resume,” or some other way of putting it, the hiring managers want to keep the upper hand in salary negotiations from [...]
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Some of the topics in this blog don’t exactly stand alone. Resumes can be considered separately to a point, but they’re also intimately tied to interviewing. Salary is a whole subject by itself, and yet things like job benefits and work/life balance play a integral role in the compensation offer.
It’s this second group of related [...]
tags: Salary & the Market author: Allen Voivod comments: 1 Comment