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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

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Getting a promotion is an exciting event for employees. However, some of that excitement is probably due to the pay raise that they expect will come with the promotion. But sometimes employers offer promotions without an increase in pay, a growing phenomenon called dry promotions. What is a dry promotion?

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What You Can Learn About Making Decisions From a Baseball Umpire

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“Compared to the players, the salaries for the umpires are very good, especially because there’s really no reason for them to spend any money during the season,” says Texas League President Tom Kayser, who retired at season’s end after 25 years. There have been years with no one moving up, other times we’ve had 10 guys promoted,” Kayser says.

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Ep 243: Nicole Grinnell on Delegation and Unlocking Your Productivity Potential

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All those traditional holiday things, go to the plaza, just walk through go through the park. Nicole Grinnell 5:57 Yeah, so I’m the CEO that I was mainly supporting, actually retired. And so I started serving my COO for about five or 10 hours a week, he was retired. Jeremy Burrows 2:49 Nice.

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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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Answering Reader Mail: The Other Assistant Isn't As Qualified - Should I Express My Interest?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

4) The previous assistant does not want to lose any important benefits/tenure/seniority at the previous company whether they be retirement savings, vacation accrual rate, or misc perks they would lose. Successful executives are rarely lazy and slow if they earned their title from being promoted through hard work and not nepotism, etc.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

For example, I got promoted after being at a company fairly quickly. When I got promoted, I actually gave a gift to the person who got me my first job at the company. Rather than thank them when I first got hired (I did send a thank you card), I thanked them when I got promoted. The timing of the gift is also crucial.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

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Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. Holiday Season Kicks Off – 2 Weeks in Review! But when Deb mentioned the words ‘retirement fund’ and I actually barked a laugh, I started to think. (A

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