Ask The Headhunter® - Can't negotiate a higher salary? Ask for more money.
If the job offer is low and the employer won't increase the salary, one way to get more money is to negotiate a signing bonus. Here's how.| Ask The Headhunter®
If the job offer is low and the employer won't increase the salary, one way to get more money is to negotiate a signing bonus. Here's how.| Ask The Headhunter®
Faced with a low salary offer? Don't give up higher total compensation! Assess your options and, rather than negotiate, have a candid talk.| Ask The Headhunter®
A manager can't attract a passive job hunter to apply for a job. The manager has to go find that person where they live and work.| Ask The Headhunter®
In the October 13, 2015 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader wonders whether rejection in the jobs marketplace suggests it’s time to start a business instead. Question My husband and I have been in the software business for ten years. Paul was a crucial part of two successful start-ups. The products he developed won awards and were best-sellers, and as a result he was hired by an established company. (They hired me, too.) There, Paul started, designed and finished a small project for a c...| Ask The Headhunter®
You raised your kids and now want a job for Mom? Resumes, job postings, interviews getting you nowhere? Don't look for jobs. Look for work!| Ask The Headhunter®
Did you lose your federal job to the DOGE patrol? Decided to jump to the private sector? Don't know how? Here's how to land softly.| Ask The Headhunter®
In the May 27, 2014 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a manager explains how she hires by respecting job applicants: I’m a longtime reader. Your advice has helped me in my job searches and salary negotiations. I recently landed a great job with a great salary, where I have done very well. Well enough, in fact, that I’m now the one in charge of my team, and we are hiring! So now I’m on the other side of the job-search equation. Since I take your advice to heart, as I conduct my candidate se...| Ask The Headhunter®
When a hiring manager is interested, but HR closes the door on you, do you tell the manager? Yup. Here's how to say it.| Ask The Headhunter®
They showed you a job offer letter and asked you to decide. When you asked to think it over they wouldn't let you keep the letter. Say what?| Ask The Headhunter®
In the September 15, 2015 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader just doesn’t get all the fuss that’s called networking. Question I’ve been trying to find a mentor who understands networking better than I do. I just don’t get it. We are not expert in everything, and this is one area where I want to get some help. Can you give me some clarity about networking? Nick’s Reply So much has been written and said about networking that networking has become a business, an industry, a racket...| Ask The Headhunter®
You made it to the final interview to meet the boss's boss. How do you stand out in this meeting? Get help from who knows the big boss best.| Ask The Headhunter®
Take control of any salary negotiation now. Don't believe the myth that whoever puts a number on the table first, loses. That's bunk.| Ask The Headhunter®
Are online job applications driving people insane? Or just driving them away from jobs they can do? When PBS NewsHour‘s Paul Solman reported on America’s biggest job killer — the automated job applicant sorter — he asked me what I think about this practice. And what do you think I said? Check out Ask The Headhunter on PBS NewsHour’s Making Sen$e. We taped my sections of this segment at the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia recently: . ? . Is the Ask The Headhunter approach ...| Ask The Headhunter®
In the June 10, 2014 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader doesn’t want to pay so an employer can interview him: I applied for a sales job, but it’s in a distant city. I don’t think the company pays relocation costs. They insist that applicants pay a portion of the interview costs, including mileage, airfare, hotel, meals. (The job posting says interview expenses are “negotiable.”) I’ve never faced this before. I may be willing to pay my own relocation if I want the job, but I ...| Ask The Headhunter®
For every stupid networking event promoted to job seekers, I think there’s a gathering unrelated to job hunting that coincidentally yields new jobs for some people some of the time while they’re doing something else.| Ask The Headhunter®
The best way to become well-connected is to meet and stay in touch with people who do the work you're interested in and who are good at what they do. Real networking is about shared experiences.| Ask The Headhunter®
Do you live in a career desert where job choices are few and employers take advantage of job seekers and employees? Up your game.| Ask The Headhunter®
Lying about your salary history might get you a higher job offer, but it will likely get you fired from your new job, too.| Ask The Headhunter®
Try this insider tip: Hang out with people that do the kinds of jobs you want. Talk shop, make friends. That's where jobs come from.| Ask The Headhunter®
