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Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software
(Optional but recommended) Establish a reputation in your field as someone who delivers measurable results vis-a-vis improving revenue or reducing costs.
Have a hiring manager talk with you, specifically, about an opening that they want you, specifically, to fill.
Talk informally (and then possibly formally) and come to the conclusion that this would be a great thing if both sides could come to a mutually fulfilling offer.
Let them take a stab at what that mutually fulfilling offer would look like.
Suggest ways that they could improve it such that the path is cleared for you doing that voodoo that you do so well to improve their revenue and/or reduce their costs.
(Optional) Give the guy hiring you a resume to send to HR, for their records.  Nobody will read it, because resumes are an institution created to mean that no one has to read resumes.  Since no one will read it, we put it in the process where it literally doesn’t matter whether it happens or not, because if you had your job offer contingent on a document that everyone knows no one reads, that would be pretty effing stupid now wouldn’t it.
negotiation  salary  career  business 
february 2012 by kai
Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America's #1 College Magic Show - News - 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
Here's how surprise works.  While holding my attention, you withold basic plot information.  Feed it to me little by little.  Make me try and figure out what's going on.  Tease me in one direction.  Throw in a false ending.  Then turn it around and flip me over.
career  magic  speaking  inspiration 
february 2012 by kai
Scott Adams Blog: Systems 09/12/2011
If I were to summarize the CEO's advice, it went something like this: Your job isn't to do your job. Your job is to get a better job. That's a system, not a goal.

The trick is that I didn't have an exercise goal in the first place, so I couldn't have failed to reach it. What I do have is an exercise system, and I was completely successful at the system. My philosophy is that losers have goals and winners have systems.

In this case, my system is that I attempt to exercise five times a week around lunchtime. And I always allow myself the option of driving to the gym then turning around and going home. What I've discovered is that the routine of preparing to exercise usually inspires me to go through with it even if I didn't start out in the mood. This particular day, my body wasn't going to cooperate. No problem. The system of attempting to exercise worked as planned. I didn't have a trace of guilt about driving home. I've used this system for my entire adult life. I see exercise as a lifestyle, not an objective.
system  goal  career  dream-job 
september 2011 by kai
Vonneguit on Life
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
career  from delicious
march 2011 by kai

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