Negotiating a Great Salary
After you receive one or more offers for your dream job, you can begin to negotiate a better salary. To learn more about updating your resume, see Update Your Resume This Weekend, an article in the Epiphenie Weekend Series. To learn how to get an offer for your dream job, see Landing Your Dream Job. When you are ready to negotiate your offers, keep the following things in mind: Timing Timing can be very important. If you interview at...
Landing Your Dream Job
Whether you are happy with your current technical career or are working a job only for a paycheck, you probably dream of a better place. If you wish for a fulfilling career where your work matters and you are happy with your pay and benefits, then you must take action. Often in technical fields, employees are hired at competitive pay with good benefits. Unfortunately, years of small bonuses, small raises (around 1%-3%), and no...
Update Your Resume This Weekend
This weekend, as part of the Weekend Series, spend some time getting your resume in order. As a best practice, you should update your paper and online resumes regularly so that you are prepared for unexpected layoffs or opportunities. Your resume serves two purposes. The first is to make it past the “bots” that scan the text for relevant terms, and into the hands of a recruiter or hiring manager. The second is to make that...
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