by Barbara Safani | Aug 21, 2009 | salary negotiation
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...
by Barbara Safani | May 9, 2009 | salary negotiation
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...
by Barbara Safani | Mar 17, 2009 | salary negotiation
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...
by Barbara Safani | Feb 7, 2009 | career management, interviews, networking, resume, salary negotiation
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...
by Barbara Safani | Jan 31, 2009 | salary negotiation
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...
by Barbara Safani | May 13, 2008 | salary negotiation
Great words of wisdom from Nick Corcodilis over on the Ask the Headhunter blog…Nick reminds job seekers that the job boards put all sorts of limitations on the job seeker. You can’t be an empowered candidate when you use job boards as your only source for...