13 Salary Negotiation Tactics to Get a Raise and Maximize Your Salary

Understanding salary negotiation and how to ask for a raise is a professional skill everyone needs to master. When you ask for a raise, there are many things you can do ahead of time to increase the odds of your salary negotiation tactics landing the salary increase you want. Studies by management consulting firms show…

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Sometimes It’s Not Ageism, It’s Economics

sometimes it’s not ageism, it’s economics and if you're not willing to take a pay cut and be flexible, it's time to get more competitive

Sometimes It’s Not Ageism, It’s Economics “It’s ageism!” This is the response I get when I ask senior-level job seekers why they think they are experiencing challenges in their job search… when they never experienced trouble before. “I am doing everything that I used to do that worked and now it’s just not working” is…

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Want a Personal Trainer for Job Hunting?

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Want a Personal Trainer for Job Hunting? I hired a personal trainer last week. I had to own the fact that despite all of the online classes my gym has been providing during the pandemic closure, the millions of exercise videos on YouTube, the gym in my building, the 2-3 pieces of portable workout equipment…

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Is Your Job Search Poisoned by “What If?”

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Is Your Job Search Poisoned by “What If?” Every single day… hundreds (if not thousands) of job seekers are paralyzed, frozen in their job search by their crippling fear of failure. Now more than ever, most people can not afford to fail at their job-seeking mission and it can be a daunting task during such…

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Your Career & Coronavirus: Negotiating Work-From-Home Executive Jobs

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Your Career & Coronavirus: Negotiating Work-From-Home Executive Jobs One positive (if you don’t get mad at me for saying this) that can come from the coronavirus outbreak is companies are more than happy to have you work from home to help contain the potential spread. I know many of you would LOVE to continue to…

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