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Salary Exposure

Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Times has a piece on disclosure of salaries and the good points and bad points. More interesting than the article is a referenced site called Glassdoor.com where one could disclose their salary in exchange for information about other people’s salaries. The site has the obvious issue that the salaries are self-reported. There are also […]

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Get Paid More

Saturday, March 3, 2007

An article in the New York Times discusses the use of publicly available information in salary negotiations: “If information is power, then most employees who enter salary negotiations are holding pea shooters while the boss is encased in a Kevlar vest.” Smart employers and employees already use these sources of information to set competitive salary […]

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No Exuberance Please

Monday, October 9, 2006

Why the best employees are robots/zombies! Small amount of hyperbole to make an excellent point about what the difference between the type of employees companies say they want and the type of employees they really want.

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50 Interview Questions

Monday, August 28, 2006

Strategies for answering 50 common interview questions.

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Salaries shouldn’t be secret

Thursday, August 10, 2006

The Chief Happiness Officer has an excellent post making a case for salaries being made public knowledge. It’s one of the most insightful things I’ve read on the topic. The post suggests there are three reason why secret salaries are a bad idea: it makes compensation unfair, it frustrates any debate about the topic (as […]

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Why Recruiters Aren’t Calling You

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

The New York chapter of the Project Management Institute has a helpful article for you job-seekers out there. Why Recruiters Aren’t Calling You contains some good advice, but also the sad reality.

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