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How to Negotiate Salary at a New Job

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Imagine you got through your dream interview and the offer letter has been extended to you. However, the salary offered is way below your expectations. What would you do? Let go of the job or accept what has been offered?  There is a third alternative also which most forget. Negotiate for a better compensation. Here is how you can do it.

Negotiate Salary

Do you know how disastrous not negotiating your first salary could be? A study conducted by George Mason University and Temple University researchers, and published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior has found that new hires who negotiated their starting salaries gained $5,000 on an average, which was worth over $600,000 over the course of a 40 year career.

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Pros and Cons of Online Job Hunting

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Landing on a new job after college/underemployment or Finding a higher paying job and thus increasing your income is one of the most important aspects of personal finance. There are few other articles on career and productivity that I wrote in last couple of years. In this blog post I’ll talk about finding job through internet.

Internet job search

Sociologists conducted a survey, the topic was: “What do you do when you need to find a prestigious job quickly?” The results were the following: 6 % of the respondents will go to a recruitment agency or labor exchange; 7% of them will ask their friends and relatives for help; 9 %  will look through the newspaper for a suitable job; 16% of respondents will search for a job through the Internet sitting at home; 62 % use several of the above mentioned methods.So, it’s worth to say a few words about the pros and cons of Internet job search as it is the newest and the most widely used means of job hunting.

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10 Differences in Work Habits – Executive and Employees

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I am an Ordinary employee with an ambition to become one of the top executives sometime in my career. I may not be on target as of now, but I want to be on course. I have worked at few Fortune 500 corporation, observed their top management. Attended their town-halls and tried to learn from them, as much as I could. This post is a summary of things I learned.

Employee and management

Highly successful persons are apart from others. They are able to rise atop their counterparts in terms of performance and always get tasks done. Oftentimes, these people are the first to obtain recognition when promotions are due, as well as awards and like corporate gratitude expressions. The logic applied here is quite simple, which is that highly top executives are far more effective than regular workers.

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20 Ways to Survive Office Politics

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Office politics is a common phenomenon, which you can’t avoid. At some point of time in your career you’ll have to face it. I suggest you learn the skills needed now to cope with and master office politics.

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One of the best feelings is working in a harmonious and comfortable office environment. You can work with ease without thinking of the problems in the work field. But, unfortunately, this atmosphere you are wishing for seldom exist in a competitive environment.

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