I have seen the salary negotiation process from every possible angle, and if you are going through it now, congratulations on being offered a job! A lot of my ideas on salary negotiation are derived from “Getting To Yes” a great book on negotiation by two Harvard academics, Roger Fisher and William Ury. Kind of a slog to [...]
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Today we have a guest post from Lim Hodgson. Lim was a careers manager for many years at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia. Here are her ideas on career management, derived from her time advising university students. Career Management is really a planning process. Planning a career can be an exciting journey of exploration [...]
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I am very interested to hear what people think of the idea of a “blended life”…the idea of seamlessly blending your work and non-work existence. I suspect it is a life that many young professionals (including me) are living, but is it sustainable/a good thing?http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/04/02/twentysomething-why-i-dont-want-worklife-balance/ (a post by Ryan Healy on Penelope Trunk’s blog)
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http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/05/the_nine_bigges.html This is an awesome list of workplace myths from Penelope Trunk posted on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It is mostly about career and how to manage it. Everything in here is great, but I particularly like myth no. 9
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“What business now values is someone who can cross-fertilize ideas from one business to another. The formation, development, dismantling and reformation of relationships…is expected in all aspects of life in the post-boomer world. from The Big Picture, by Bernard Salt (Hardie Grant Books) Fortunately, in most working cultures around the world, there is no expectation [...]
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Professionals I talk to almost always underestimate the difficulty of finding a job when they return home after working overseas. I worked outside my home country of Australia for seven years. Three years before I came back to Australia I started planning my return. Two months before, I flew over to Australia for interviews. I quit my [...]
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I have made a couple of earlier posts on resume writing generally, but this post is specifically directed at finance and accounting professionals. The first rule is to use lots of numbers - it looks good; it says: Finance/Accounting. Formatting Particularly for accounting/compliance focused professionals, you cannot be too conservative with how you format your resume. [...]
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For most people their resume is their primary branding tool. Therefore you should certainly approach resume writing carefully. But it is not that complicated….and as long as you don’t completely stuff it up, people will make an effort to read through it and extract the relevant info. DO 1. Organise your resume with a backwards [...]
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So many people leave their job for the wrong reasons. Quitting almost always has a negative impact on your Career Equity (more on this later). By working for sometime within an organisation, you build up a knowledge of how that organisation works, as well as a network of trusted colleagues, and therefore give yourself an [...]
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When a company is interviewing for a role, it is a process of ruling people out. They have seen that you have the right experience and skill set from your resume, now they want to know if there is anything wrong with you. As a consequence, you want to do as little talking as possible during [...]
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