Eat Your Career

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Aggressively negotiating with existing vendors for better pricing. Imagine a resume full of value-add accomplishments like this. The information you gather will be critically important in future performance reviews or when writing your next resume. Who wouldn’t be willing to pay a little more for an employee like that?

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On The Job

JUNE 20, 2008

Ask for reviews. When you take a new job, ask for a review in the first 90 days to review your performance. This helps set the groundwork for a salary bump before your annual review. Negotiate for other compensation/benefits. Some companies still offer the benefit, and any education is worth the time.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

I arrange quite a few events and have realized the importance of reading and reviewing the contracts carefully, highlighting key dates. I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. It is always worth asking.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Aside from that, I use it for many reasons, but largely, I want to have my resume online so I can connect with people and have them learn about me should they so desire. Having on-going open discussions as soon as you come aboard helps navigate your role better and negotiate appropriately during your annual review.

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Job Advice Blog

APRIL 24, 2010

This is an extremely critical stage because résumé readers typically review large numbers of résumés, and having only one opening to fill, their intention at this point is to reduce the number of résumés to three to five final candidates for interviewing. In fact, this process of reviewing the résumé is divided into two parts.

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Job Advice Blog

MAY 15, 2010

That depends: if you have good writing skills, you can draft a résumé and then have some people whose proficiency and judgment you trust review and edit it for you until it becomes excellent. My resume is a disaster, I have spent countless hours tweaking and rewriting to no avail. So, how does one put together an excellent résumé?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

It also looks bad on one’s resume. I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. Second, talk to him during your annual review. And I had to debate with myself if it was worth staying in a job that was pretty great, but not amazing. It’s a grueling process to keep doing for a year or more.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Will you constantly review your job and life every 3 months when a new opportunity comes up? It will also be hard to negotiate a salary because you're stating upfront how little you make which may also make them think you don't have the proper experience. If you say it's for the money, it looks bad. 3 months is very short.

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