Skills Archive

  • When should you ask for more money?

    Tweet Apparently, if you are willing (able?) to leave your job, it is the best position to be in to ask for more money. This paper studies the ex-ante effect of worker separations on wage negotiations using matched worker–firm data from The Netherlands. We find […]

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  • Do salaries plateau at the age of 40?

    Tweet Penelope Trunk (whom I read on occasion) wrote an interesting post about why salaries plateau at the age of 40. Reading both the article and the comments are highly recommended. Her points: Go where the men are, like in male-dominated industries. Rewrite your resume […]

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  • Every country is good at something

    Tweet Note: some are stereotypical in my opinion, but please take it lightheartedly with a grain, no a handful of salt. Click on the image to enlarge it HIGHLIGHTS: Canada — Fruit Juice Drinkers (Even I thought this was lame, I thought it was crazed […]

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  • Reader: How to network even though you (think) you hate it

    Tweet First, it’s not really a natural social skill, and not many people do it actively without thinking. I sure as hell don’t. We are all to some extent, natural introverts. Some of us come out of our shell more often than others and I […]

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  • Mandatory life skills?

    Tweet Apparently this is a list of required ‘life skills’. I think I can do about half of them, and the other quarter is irrelevant and/or I don’t know. Iron a shirt Yes. I can definitely do this. Put out a fire Yes. If given […]

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