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How To Counter That Job Offer

How To Counter That Job Offer

What happens when you get an job offer that’s near perfect? You can either accept, decline, or negotiate to make it even better! How so? Glassdoor’s Amy Elisa Jackson explains how to counter without blowing the offer. In the article, Amy interviews Deepak Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School […]

Go Ahead, Discuss Your Salary at Work

Go Ahead, Discuss Your Salary at Work

Many employees are surprised to learn that discussing your salary with coworkers isn’t illegal. Instead, the opposite is encouraged to help you negotiate a better salary.

This Week in Career Advice: “Tell Me Why You’re Leaving Your Current Job”

This Week in Career Advice: “Tell Me Why You’re Leaving Your Current Job”

For such a commonly asked interview question, answering why you’re leaving your current role can be one of the most difficult and uncomfortable questions to address.

This Week in Career Advice: The Value of Exit Interviews

This Week in Career Advice: The Value of Exit Interviews

How honest should you be in an exit interview, especially if you need to stay on good terms with a company in order to potentially secure a positive employment reference in the future?

This Week in Career Advice: Why You Need to Consider a Passive Recruitment Strategy

This Week in Career Advice: Why You Need to Consider a Passive Recruitment Strategy

Finding a job is time-consuming. Between looking through financial job boards, researching hiring managers and filling out often-lengthy applications, a proper job hunt can literally eat away hours of your free time every single week. That’s why adopting a passive recruitment strategy is a solid approach every job-hunter should use when seeking new opportunities, according […]

This Week in Career Advice: Job Hunting Tips & Tricks

This Week in Career Advice: Job Hunting Tips & Tricks

This week focused on the job-hunting process, from continuing your job search after accepting a job, to deciphering job descriptions. 

This Week in Career Advice: Why You Should Never Give Your Salary Information

This Week in Career Advice: Why You Should Never Give Your Salary Information

Asking for your previous salary has almost become commonplace among recruiters, however revealing this information can be damaging to your future career, so says Liz Ryan of Forbes Magazine. In addition to giving up any leverage you possess, Ryan argues that revealing your current salary information gives your potential new employer permission to determine your value […]

This Week In Career Advice: Lowball Salary Offers & Why You’re Underpaid

This Week In Career Advice: Lowball Salary Offers & Why You’re Underpaid

This week was all about salary: when to walk away from a low salary, why you’re being paid so little, and how to deal with a boss who limits your salary based on their own.

Financial Career Advice

Financial Career Advice

Every week, the FinancialJobsWeb.com Employment Blog revisits the week’s top career articles. This week, we review the signs you’re in a fake interview, contextual answers on quitting your job, and the moment a candidate realizes they could never work for a potential employer!

Financial Career Advice: July 19 to 25, 2016

Financial Career Advice: July 19 to 25, 2016

Every week, the FinancialJobsWeb.com Employment Blog revisits the week’s top career articles. This week, we’re reviewing how to build a personal brand, how to answer questions about job-hopping, and how to double our salary.