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Can You Do Better Than These Seven Ways To Negotiate Salary?
Are you considering moving job? Is your current job at risk? I can share with you Six Expert Tips for negotiating your salary, should you need them. But once you have read them, can you do any better? Then let us know.
1. Fully grasp what you want, and what you don’t want. Make sure you’re [...]
Credit Crunch: Two Great Tips On Preparing For The Elbow
No amount of preparation is too much preparation if your short-term employment prospects look bleak - there’s a big buzz on the ‘doom ahead’ in the blogosphere and here is a link to a post on Mark McClure’s website markmccluretoday.com I thought I’d share.
This post can be used as a sort of ‘blog carnival’ for the [...]
Money Isn’t Everything, According to IT Professionals (who responded)
I’ve just read an excellent article, written by Ann All, on the IT Business Edge website that discusses the working environment that IT professionals prefer to work in.
What I like about it is Ann’s honest view about the conclusion that IT people like to work in a positive, challenging environment. I’m pleased that IT people see [...]
It’s Leaders Who Create Merit-Whores
A couple of weeks back I wrote about the most disliked behaviors in IT departments, and one that 80% of IT leaders felt strongly about was the rise of the Merit-Whore. A Merit-Whore is someone who persistently and unfairly takes credit for the work of a team or a subordinate. Why does this happen?
In most [...]
Why IT People Don’t Move Jobs
The average tenure of an IT professional in an organization is still around two years on average, but there are exceptions where workers stay around what seems forever. Why?
I know of several dedicated, experienced IT professionals in the US, UK and South Africa that are in a ‘trap’ - i.e. they feel stuck in a [...]
URGENT: Now Is The Time To Move Jobs If You Think You Are S**t Hot!
We’re in recession - it’s a golden opportunity! If you are master in your craft industry then don’t wait for the recession to end, now is the time to move. This advice might seem counter-intuitive because in hard times it’s natural to want to feel secure in your organization, and certainly take advantage of any severance [...]
Grip of recession (?)
The media continues to report that we’re in the grip of a recession. Whilst this maybe true, I haven’t yet seen a cascade of severance and canceled projects; but that may still come.
A little while ago I offered 5 recession beating tips for Technical Professionals which discussed some proactive measures to reduce your personal risk [...]
… whilst we’re on the subject of recession…
A recent article on HBS: Working Knowledge gave a marketing view on coping with recession (take a look.) You might notice a number of parallels between the advice aimed at marketers and the advice I gave in my last article ‘5 Recession Beating Tips’.
I think this is because marketing and technical departments face similar challenges [...]
5 Tips for beating recession in techical roles
It’s hotly debated whether we’re heading into a global recession or not; my personal view is that the economy is slowing down sufficiently enough to spur me to prepare for recession. Taking positive action now could soften the blow if such a disaster were to happen, and I’d confront it on the front foot. Below [...]
Asking for a salary increase
Throughout my career working with people in technical roles, I’ve seen that many folks really struggle with asking for a payrise.
Technical roles typically pay higher salaries than average, but it’s common for technical workers to have problems in engaging with their managers and paymasters to ask for an increase. I attribute this to the phenomena [...]
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