If your list of goals and resolutions this year include securing a higher salary, youre not alone. In a tough economy the cost of living is constantly on the rise and the compensation you originally negotiated may be out of step with the value you represent to your employers. Odds are, though, that your employers have an even closer eye on their bottom line, so if you want a raise, you have to be strategic. For your best chance at a boost to your paycheque, follow these 5 steps.
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January 5th, 2012
Salary history
Salary history sharing it can affect your negotiation power in the job application and interview process. But, before you start talking salary history, make sure you understand what the employer wants to know. When employers ask for your salary history, they want to know how much you earned in each past position and theyre usually especially interested in your last position.
Read MoreDecember 14th, 2011
How To Handle The Five Killer Telephone Interview Questions
A telephone interview is usually short, just enough time to rule you in or out, so the focus is on questions that help evaluate you quickly. Your goal is to turn it into a face-to-face meeting, so your answers need to be concise. As a rule of thumb, keep your answers to less than two minutes, if an interviewer wants to know more s/he will ask.
Read MoreDecember 14th, 2011
Top Ways to Leverage Social Media in Recruiting
Companies are increasingly using social media in recruiting, a trend known as social recruiting. The 3 main platforms to leverage for sourcing candidates are LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Finding candidates wont happen overnight, though. You must set up your profiles and work to build a community before you broadcast job openings. Start early, build your network and then leverage that network.
Read MoreNovember 24th, 2011
Hiring a Foreign Worker or non-Canadian
Hiring a foreign worker may seem like a struggle, causing many employers to skip over a non-Canadians resume in favour of the next. However, by hiring a temporary foreign worker, companies can better compete in a job market during labour shortages.
Read MoreNovember 23rd, 2011
How To Customize Your Primary Professional Branding Tool: Your Resume
Your resume is the primary branding tool to introduce and position yourself to the professional world. It is, quite simply, the most financially important document you will ever own: when your resume works you work, when it doesn’t you don’t. Properly executed, a carefully branded resume insures that prospective employers and colleagues see you, as you want to be seen. Short-change the effort you put into your resume and you cheat employment and future success.
Read MoreNovember 9th, 2011
Are Your Hiring and Retention Efforts Balanced?
The workplace is always evolving. The recession, in particular, has hastened and highlighted many of these changes, including the growing age gap among the current workforce. According to a study from the Pew Research Center, over the past 20 years the number of older workers has steadily risen, while younger adults are waiting longer to enter the labor force. This means that the workplace is becoming even more diverse in the age groups it contains, and leaders are now dealing with the added strain of catering their retention and recruitment efforts to this varied palette of employees.
Read MoreNovember 9th, 2011
Stay Sane While on the Job-Hunt
So youve been unemployed for a while now, and youre tearing your hair out with boredom and frustration.
Read our tips on how to stay sane and motivated while looking for that dream job:
October 26th, 2011
Free HR Webinars
Cant find the time to travel to a conference? Interested in connecting online with other HR professionals?
We’ve compiled a list of free webinars being offered over the next week.
October 20th, 2011
Does Your Resume Sell Your Key Skills?
Does your resume or online profile tell the world all about you? Does it sell your skills? Are you using key words that help it stand out in a search? Have you defined your brand? If not, now is the time to do it.
I put my website into a tool called Wordle, which creates word pictures based on key words.
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