Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Job-hunting tips from the September 13, 2010, issue of
QuintZine.
Here's a salary-negotiation tip from Gail Geary, author of Your Next Career:
Employers often pay recruiters a percentage of the hired applicant's first-year salary. Therefore, recruiters
want to know that the salary you expect coincides with what the employer will pay. When speaking with recruiters
about salary, Geary suggests you refer to your researched salary range first.
When filling out applications that ask for salary history or requirements, Geary suggests you fill in the blank
with the phrase "discuss in person." On applications that do not allow this tactic, Geary recommends you answer
the question truthfully based on the value of your last salary and bonus or your future salary expectations.
The tip is part of an article, 5 Steps to Successful Salary Negotiation, compiled by Selena Dehne, crackerjack
publicist for Geary's publisher, JIST. Read the full article.
Where are the jobs?, you ask. Many governments have been actively trying to promote growth, competitiveness,
and employment. But policy makers who hope that advanced "clean" technologies can create work on a large scale will probably be
disappointed, because these sectors are just too small to make an economy-wide difference. The local-business and household-services
sectors are a much better bet: from 1995 to 2005, services generated all net job growth in high-income economies.
Low-tech "green" activities, such as improving the insulation of buildings and replacing obsolete heating and cooling
equipment, could generate more jobs than renewable technologies can.
To learn more, read Where the U.S. will find growth and jobs.
Another source for job growth may be small businesses. Steve Hendershot, in an article for Workforce Management,
Notes that "as the owners of now-stabilized small businesses come up for air, they are encountering a marketplace that
looks a little different from the way it did the last time they contemplated growth. For one thing, their competitors are
weaker and probably fewer in number. In addition, the hiring pool is flush with qualified candidates. In many cases,
entrepreneurs have been pleasantly surprised to discover just how efficiently they can operate.
Entrepreneurs are inherent risk-takers, and their instinct, When opportunities are within their grasp, is to reach for
them. Those who sense opportunity in the marketplace now also realize that there will be intense competition
to capitalize on it. This is good news for job seekers, because some small businesses are beginning to hire again.
Here's a salary-negotiation tip from Gail Geary, author of Your Next Career:
