I'm excited to announce that my second book, #JobSearchTweet will be released shortly. The book delivers 140 tweet-like tips on just about every aspect of job search. It's a book that you can read quickly but continue to reference for the duration of your career. Resumes, cover letters, thank you le...
Age Discrimination and Job Search: Who Made the Rules and How Can You Compete?
I don't think about my age too much. People often tell me that I look younger than I am so I've spent most of my adult life trying to look older, not younger. But recently, four events occurred within the same day that forced me to think about age and the perception that age can create. I saw a le...
The Skinny on Employee Compensation: It’s Getting Skinnier and What Does That Mean for Job Seekers?
Over the past few weeks I've been culling information from various compensation surveys, HR Magazine, and presentations by Mercer Consulting and ORC Worldwide to investigate compensation benchmarks for 2009 and trends for 2010. Here’s what I have learned and what I believe to be the implications...
Salary Negotiation Words to Lose and Use
I recently saw Sam Horn, author of "Create the Perfect Pitch, Title, and Tagline for Anything" at the NRWA conference. Sam talked about the power of words when presenting ideas and discussed what she called "words to lose" and "words to use." I started thinking about the importance of dropping "losi...
Job Seekers-What Could You Live Without?
My teenage son has been allergic to milk products his entire life. His reaction is pretty intense...immediate vomiting, drop in blood pressure, turning white as a ghost...all from a thimble-full of milk or a bite of cheese. He is part of an allergy research study group and every year he spends a d...
Salary Negotiation: How Much Are You Worth?
I recently sat down with Jennifer Loftus, National Director for Astron Solutions. Jennifer develops, designs, and implements base pay compensation systems and she is an active member of SHRM's Total Rewards Special Expertise panel. I asked her some of the questions job seekers often have about compe...
Being a Mom is a Six-Figure Job
In honor of Mother's Day I just checked out Salary.com's salary calculator for moms. Salary.com valuated the "mom job" of both the working and stay-at-home moms and based on a survey of more than 12,000 mothers, Salary.com determined that the time mothers spend performing 10 typical job functions wo...
Sizzling Salary Disclosure Discussions
Check out this great post on salary disclosure from Nick Corocodilis on Ask the Headhunter as well as the 100+ comments around this subject on Laurie Ruettimann's Punk Rock HR blog. I agree with Nick and Laurie...A candidate's past salary is not a relevant benchmark for deciding compensation in a...
Career Solvers Twitter Roundup
When I want to get an important piece of job search information out to my readers quickly, I often write a mini blog post on the microblog Twitter. I've culled my top ten tweets over recent months and posted them below. If you want to read all my posts on Twitter you can find them here or set up...
Salary Transparency-Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine?
ABC's 20/20 recently ran a story on salary transparency and interviewed Suzie Orman and Penelope Trunk who advocate for full disclosure of all employees' salaries. I can't agree that knowing the exact salaries of everyone in your office is a sound management practice and I can't imagine it wou...