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I remember counseling someone during a transition a few years ago. He was interested in only one thing: salary.
I was in a “bad relationship” with my employer. Not bad enough to leave, but bad enough to know I didn’t like it there. It wasn’t healthy for me at all, and I should have left. The [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
February 3rd, 2012
Samantha Lacey, a recruiter, writes Do candidates expect too much?
She talks about one job seeker (aka, candidate) who just about had a job until he declined the type of BMW the company was going to give him, instead asking for a different model. Then everything fell apart, and the recruiter looked really bad. Many parties [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Recruiters, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
October 6th, 2011
This is the third, and final of the Readers Digest thoughts. This time it’s on their post What HR People Won’t Tell You About The Job Interview.
Here are some of their snippets (read post for the entire story):
“It’s amazing when people come in for an interview and say, ‘Can you tell me about your business?’ [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Interviews, Links to Related Articles, Salary & the Market, Work/Life Balance, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
April 11th, 2011
Another Readers Digest article applicable to job seekers, this time about money. What HR People Won’t Tell You About Salaries and Raises brings up some good points – definitely make sure you read the comments (especially the one from salary.com).
Here are some points from the article:
“There’s one website that drives all HR people crazy: salary.com. [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Career Education, Job Search Tools, Required Reading, Salary & the Market, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
April 7th, 2011
Check out this CNN article titled No retirement for these older folks, just work. It is a fun read
It talks about Morris Wilkinson who, at 91, still delivers mail for the USPS.
It talks about Sally Gordon who, at 101, works for the Nebraska Legislature.
It talks about Dr. Howard W. Jones who, at 99, [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, Salary & the Market, Work/Life Balance author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
September 13th, 2010
Interesting post at Huffington Post titled Future Hiring Will Mainly Benefit The High-Skilled.
It says that once employers “step up hiring” there will be two types of jobs:
Professional jobs, with higher pay, and
Lower-skill and lower-pay jobs.
Those who were in the middle of that? Bleak outlook.
What that means, I think, is that we’re going to have to [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Career Education, Salary & the Market author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
September 9th, 2010
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
July 19th, 2010
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
May 6th, 2010
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
August 3rd, 2009
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
September 2nd, 2008
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