By Elizabeth Hoogs
In the last three weeks, I have been to as many schools and as many career fairs. I just finished the Fall Career Fair at University of Wisconsin Madison, and after shaking hands and collecting resumes, I have a stack of candidates who stood out to me and my colleagues as passionate, smart, and will be invited for first round interviews. So what did they do right?
Career Fairs are brutal. You poor students wonder among the booths, weave your way through the crowds, resumes in hand, trying to catch the eye of a recruiter. Your job is to communicate your interests and impress me in a very short period of time. Here are a few tips on being noticed (in a good way;-)). (more…)
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In my last post, I talked about a few tools to help candidates research what they are worth before negotiating a salary or a raise. I just ran across an interesting post on Career Solvers that discusses negotiating total compensation packages – meaning not just salary but also the monetary value of any other perks such as health insurance, paid time off, and performance bonuses.
It had some great information in it, including a link to another post on Compensation Blog that references a Bureau of Labor Statistics report called “Survey of Employee Benefits in Private Industry” that all candidates should review before entering a salary negotiation.
As you prepare yourself to negotiate a total compensation packages, you obviously want to address things such as paid time-off and work-life balance options like telecommuting. These are now pretty common benefits that are negotiated as part of the total compensation. But what about perks such as equipment, a car, mileage, or relocation packages?
For example, most sales professionals are on the phone or in their cars for the majority of their work day. With the high price of gas, not to mention wear and tear on your car, it wouldn’t be uncommon to negotiate a company car or generous lease package from your employer.
Furthermore, if your employer has endorsed or even mandated that you telecommute, be sure to negotiate payment for an office home line, cell phone, Internet service, and additional equipment such as a fax machine. These are imperative to complete your job, but not necessarily added expenses for you to absorb.
Think about the responsibilities and/or tools needed of your job as you prepare to discuss a total compensation package.
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If a recruiter has a position open, guess who their first move is when they want to fill it. If you guessed posting a job on a job site, you’re wrong (at least most of the time). Recruiters are like any other human being and they want to get their work done with the least amount of effort. So a recruiter’s first move is usually to call (or email) someone they already know. Posting a job on a job site is time consuming and typically requires having to deal with a deluge of responses (most job ads yield 300+ candidates responding with their resumes). It’s much easier for the recruiter to try someone they know first.
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Losing your job is a shock no matter how it happens. Fired, laid off, downsized-it’s all spelled ‘unemployed’. But once the shock of a job loss wears off, you might discover there can be real benefits to being unemployed By looking for the positive aspects of your situation, you can start to achieve the life you’ve always dreamed of.
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