The Art of Negotiation

No need to bring out the big guns when negotiating a Job offer. Here are the magic bullets that’ll get you what you want without throwing the new boss into a tizzy.

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Negotiating a Job Offer: Points of Entry

Negotiating the details of an offer is as much a part of the job search as resume paper and shined shoes. At the moment, however, a freaky economy has many candidates gratefully lapping up any hiring package that lands before them. But a little back and forth has its place — good economy or bad. Points of Entry shows you how to get what you … [ Read more ]

Negotiating a Job Offer: Points of Entry

Negotiating the details of an offer is as much a part of the job search as resume paper and shined shoes. At the moment, however, a freaky economy has many candidates gratefully lapping up any hiring package that lands before them. But a little back and forth has its place — good economy or bad. Points of Entry shows you how to get what you … [ Read more ]

Career Switching Tips: A Brand New Old You

“What is an MBA, anyway? A degree, of course. A door opener, to be sure. A ticket to the top, perhaps. But for some 75 percent of B-school students, it’s also a new start—the first step in a journey from one field to another. And more often than not, that new field is consulting, banking, or marketing…Our guide to spinning the career switch—compiled with the … [ Read more ]

Pleasure in Others’ Misfortune: The Heart of a Winner

Feeling bad for feeling good. Such is the strange internal conflict that is Schadenfreude, a German word, literally translated as “harm joy,” that describes taking pleasure, however fleeting, in someone else’s misfortune. More complex and layered than envy or shame, schadenfreude is as universal a human emotion as exists … and yet it is a word with no simple equivalent in English. Largely ignored for … [ Read more ]