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Ever Notice the Painful Similarities Between Job Search and Dating?
As a twice-divorced 56-year-old male on the dating scene for a nice similarly aged woman, I can safely say that dating and job search are incredibly similar. I was laid off in 2007 after the market crash and found out firsthand how difficult job search was. My last...
Introducing Mike’s Rants: My New 30 Second Video Series
Short form video is all the rage these days. Since I’m not a fan of TikTok for job search, I have decided to produce my own 30 second short form videos about job search (what else?) We know I’m not a TV personality nor even that good-looking. Feel to disagree. I’m...
Amazon More Than Doubles Max Financial Compensation To $350k From $160k
Overview This financial services career coach been writing about wage inflation a lot since the beginning of the year. However, the “wow” story first reported by GeekWire on February 7 is Amazon’s more than doubling of its base pay. As written in GeekWire, “Amazon...
Your View on The Economy Can Guide Your Job Search
Are You a Bull or a Bear? Your view on the economy can help to guide your job search. You may not be an economist -- I'm certainly not; I'm a financial services career coach -- but how you view the markets can help you determine which companies and roles will be a...
Get One Job Offer and the Money Will Flow
I’ve been talking a lot lately about compensation matters. Young 22-year-olds at JP Morgan are now being paid almost $150k per year. Where does that leave you as someone with vastly more experience, skills, and accomplishments? You have to just get one job offer. Your...
How to Increase Your Salary at Least 25% When You Switch Jobs
If you've ever negotiated your salary, you know how nerve-racking it is. Fortunately, there is a way to address the jitters: information. When you narrow the ballpark of what your new employer is willing to compensate you for, you can learn how to increase your...
3 Ways to Minimize Stock Market Volatility in Your Job Search
With the recent volatility in the equity markets caused (supposedly) by inflation fears, you should ask yourself what all this means for your job search. Although equities returned 20- 30% last year, December and January have already shown uneasiness. Read below to...
Your Bonus Number is Your Employer’s ONLY Sign of Respect
I had 6 supervisors across my 15 years on the Street that gave me my bonus number around this time of the year. The conversations were identical. They gave me my number and proceeded to talk. I stopped listening after the number. I had my expectation, and therefore...
Job Search Tactics for Now
When I wrote this article in May 2020 about job search tactics I never could have imagined that it would still be relevant 19 months later. And yet -- here we are, still in the middle of a global pandemic (sorry if that was news to you), and many of us still working...