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The Intimidation Factor: How Fear Influences Women’s Wage Negotiations

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Women can fight for themselves in the salary negotiation process by doing their research and being confident in their experience and abilities. As more states start to require salary ranges to be published, this will help even the playing field between women and men. The gender pay gap is a very real and very sad reality.

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Is Mentorship The Key To Career Advancement For Women?

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When women mentor women, they create a shortcut to success in which they can help women develop leadership skills as well as the ability to advocate for themselves. . To counteract that, employing a mentorship program is crucial, especially for women, to push for equity in promotions and career advancement. .

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7 Tips On How to Get a Promotion From “Show Your Worth” Author and Former IBM Executive Shelmina Babai Abji

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This calls for two steps—inflation to decline, which could happen, or for salaries to increase, match or exceed it. Since that factor is out of our hands, we should focus on something within our control, like our personal career trajectories and the best timing and method to seek a raise or a promotion.

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The Skills You Need to be Great Boss

On The Job

Being a manager can be rewarding and could be key to your garnering a better salary and more opportunities. As the economy begins to improve, chances for promotions into the managerial ranks are expected to increase. He also suggests it's a good idea to find a more senior manager to serve as a mentor or to lead a project at work.

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Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry

Practically Perfect PA

and 51% said they didn’t feel confident asking for career development budget. Why promote an assistant who is making your life a whole lot easier? So, after some advice from my mentor, I started sending my boss weekly emails detailing what I had achieved that week. 44% said they felt slightly underpaid.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc). In hindsight, I am 99.9%

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Apprenticeships Are Making a Comeback—Here’s Why

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In their report, they define it as a “Structured program of work-based learning under mentors, providing both value to employers and formal technical instruction to workers, and culminating in an industry-recognized credential that meets standards for registration by a Registration Agency. What is an apprenticeship?

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