Learn Truth About Increasing Your Salary in Less Than 1 Hour
FACT: The base salary is totally unrelated to performance in
the job, it's linked to agreed expectation based on perceptions before
employment starts. Therefore the work you put on *prior* to joining a new
company is key to a high salary.
In total honesty, there is nothing like changing job to build up a higher salary. All
big increases are generally linked to a change of job. Working up the corporate
ladder in the same company may work for some (you can read how Jack Welch did
it in his great book "Straight From the Gut"), others will try to
focus on asking for a pay raise, but it doesn't work for everyone.
So, here is an uncommon, yet powerful piece of advise to improve
your salary by getting great offers:
Develop relationship with head-hunters BEFORE you need a job
This is an important
step that will provide you with a clear edge over many many employees.
Contact head-hunters and ask them to have a chat face to face. Tell them you
may be looking to move soon (in 3-6 months time) and would like them to build a
view of the market for you. Specify that you handpick recruiters you work with
and would like to have a conversation with them.
Not all will accept ("call me again when you will be
looking for a job" type of answer), and that will allow you to quickly
filter our the inexperienced head-hunters that aren't in the business of
building relationship (if they aren't ready to develop relationship with you,
just imagine how they consider their relationship with the firms that offers
jobs, it's just not going to fly), they are in the quick sales business and for
them, if you don't search for a job, you are worthless.
Do not worry, either they won't last or they have rubbish
jobs that quality head-hunters will already know of. Keep searching, there are
people around that are great to meet with. If you manage to find the right one
for you and develop a relationship, they will return your calls even when the
market gets though and will provide you with a trusted view of the market and
become great advisers.
I had some pretty bad experience with some recruiters and
decided not to work with them. It's best to find out BEFORE you are truly
searching for a job.
They should listen, take notes and at the end of the
discussion have a clear idea of what you are looking for. Meet again every 6
months or quarterly depending on how fast you want to move job, put it in your
calendar and take care of those relationship. Read More
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