Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Learn How to Negotiate the Best Salary - Getting a New Job

Author: Bryan Burbank

It is important when you are negotiating a salary that you have in your mind what that perfect number will be. Usually there is a lot of mind games when you are in the process of negotiating because the employer wants to get you for the lowest price they think you will work for. It is easy to also get into the trap of the interviewer asking you what you would like to make. This is probably one of the worst traps you can fall into because it is a loose - loose situation. The company will know exactly what they can have you for and you may sell yourself short to get the job.
Learn How To: Get the Perfect Job
Build a Good Relationships
It is always good to try to build a good relationship with the new company that you applying to. Sometimes the job that you are trying to get pays more than your current job, most people try to get a higher paying job, but the interviewer may want to know why your pay is low and it is always good to let then know that you are up to the new salary and that you are worth every dime because of your worth to the new company
Learn About: Positive Work Habits
Important Factors to Negotiation
Your negotiating a salary will depend on a few important factors such as the level of experience you have for the job you are applying for, also any unique skills that would make you stand out will also be helpful to obtain a new position at the best salary. It is always better to discuss salary with the person who makes the actual decision of how much you will make and perks. Usually a Human Resource person will not be the decision maker for a higher paying salary job.
Finally it is always best to be truthful and not lie about your current salary because the new employer can confirm if the numbers are accurate and you do not want to be in a situation were you get caught in a lie.

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Bryan Burbank is an Expert in Jobs for more information go to: http://www.findanotherjob.com

Monday, June 23, 2008

Finding The Right Career For You!

By: james lee

Twenty or thirty years ago, finding the right career was limited by lack of global internet tools, restricted by more old-fashioned (if you will) values and opinions, and less important than “finding yourself.” I recall when my therapist, the savior of all saviors as far as I’m concerned, laughed with me over how I had gone about finding the right career: I had taken all the courses I found interesting and many I hoped were somehow related, then tried to decide on a major/career. She gently joked that many people decide first, then do the footwork of taking the required and necessary and relevant courses, doing internships, and getting in at some entry-level…. Clearly, I didn’t have the tools we do today for finding the right career, or I didn’t know about their existence and usefulness, at least.



For example, a lot of students will use personality testing and employment/goal assessments for finding the right career—right from the start of their semesters in college. ERIK, Psychometric testing tools, and career skills assessment batteries will help to define aptitude and save you time futzing around with majors and minors that you THINK you MIGHT like…when six years later decide you need to start all over finding the right career, as offshore drilling is not for you or interplanetary travel studies will take too long or anthropological studies of tribes now extinct are wiped off the college catalogs three quarters of the way into your educational plan.



A fantastic implement of guidance, information, and statistical projection for finding the right career is the Index to Careers Guide, created, updated/maintained, and provided both online and off (in college and high school career centers, for instance) by the U.S. Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics. If finding the right career is a task you feel or think requires a knowledge of salaries, working conditions, descriptions of the nature of the work involved, training and other qualification requirements, the number of jobs/positions held in that field and the competition involved, and projected job openings, then go to www.bls.dol.gov and type in any career title or browse the index of thousands of positions/job types.



Another brilliant tool is one that comes in workbook form and accompanies the What Color is Your Parachute and The Boxes of Life books by Richard Bolles. The workbooks (and books) have you take intensive (but interesting, fun) quizzes that lead you to slowly but surely deduce or do a process of illimination experiment that helps you in finding the right career FOR YOU…not your Mom, your dead Grandfather, or the culture around you who has all kinds of opinions about who you are and who you should be but who does not pay your rent or feed your kids when push comes to shove. Nor are they the ones who need to live in your skin, sleep through the night, or answer to your higher needs and greater consciousness….

Author Resource:-> to view more articles like this one on finding the right career, go to http://www.talkinmince.com


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