Salary Negotiation Webinar

Jill Konrath has done it again… she got another great subject matter expert for her Get Back To Work Faster webinar series.
Jack Chapman wrote Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1,000 a Minute.  He’s be sharing ideas with Jill and up to 1,000 people (it will fill up) … AT NO COST.  You want to [...]

tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, Salary & the Market author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments

Long Term Unemployment and Bankruptcy

I’ve had these to blog posts open for a few days and I just can’t get them out of my mind.
First is Long-Term Unemployment: 80 Percent Of People Jobless Last Summer Still Out Of Work from the Huffington Post.
Second is 7 Wildly Successful People Who Survived Bankruptcy from Mental Floss.
They tie together… some thoughts:

8 out [...]

tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Required Reading, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments

Age Discrimination

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 [...]

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Resume-related job search advice on salary and negotiation

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 [...]

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Where’s the money coming from (and where’s it going)?

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 [...]

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Is recession talk a big April Fool’s Day joke on resume-sending job seekers?

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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Need some salary negotiation tips? Try these

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 [...]

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How do you know you’re getting a good salary?

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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Money makes some people crazy – in lots of different ways

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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It’s the salary survey time of the year…

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 [...]

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