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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8 Proactive Moves to Protect Your Career

While M&A activity continues to downtrend, 2022 will still see deal volume in the Trillions. As the two companies become integrated, your career is in play. Obviously, the impact of any merger or acquisition is bigger than simply your job. Yet, at the end of the day, your job and protecting your career should be…

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Are You Ignoring Signs Your Job Is in Jeopardy?

Are You Ignoring Signs Your Job Is in Jeopardy? Imagine after 14 years of solid performance reviews, management changes and you start receiving unfounded poor performance reviews. If this started to happen to you, would you think your days were numbered at your job? Or would you hang on hoping the new management will eventually…

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The Myth of Job Security

Imagine being at your job 13 years and one day “Poof!”… Your job is gone. You get called into your boss’s office and you are coldly told that you are being let go today. Progressive growth, two promotions and many sacrificed weekends didn’t save your butt. You’re out. Just happened to a buddy of mine……

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Building on Small Victories

Thank you for reading my blog. I debated whether to make this my first blog post, but I strongly feel sharing this experience will help someone else. That is this only reason I started to write this blog: to help someone else. I started working with a new job search client a few weeks whom…

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