The Ultimate guide to salary negotiation, tips and suggestions
October 26, 2006
Increasing your salary is often the primary motivating factor in searching for another job. A successful salary negotiation strategy requires that you understand several key issues. You must have a realistic expectation of the appropriate salary for the position, given your geographic location, skill set, and level of responsibility. You must also understand the total value of the compensation package, where benefits and other forms of compensation can account for as much as 30% of the total value.
Additionally, the employer must recognize the value you bring to his or her company. Discuss your skills and abilities with a prospective employer and demonstrate how they match the requirements of the position. Describe how your accomplishments reflect your ability to make a positive impact on the company. The more you convince an employer of your potential value to the company, the more leverage you will have in negotiating a higher salary.
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Top 25 insider Tips for Salary Negotiation
October 26, 2006
Throughout your job search, you should seriously consider several questions about your financial value and future income. What, for example, are you worth? How much should you be paid for your work? How can you best demonstrate your value to an employer? Salary negotiation is something that hiring managers are usually more experienced in than the people they hire. In the interest of leveling the playing field, here is a list of tips for salary negotiation.
1. Maximize your past experience.
Understand what you have achieved. Bring your past experiences to the table as a tool when negotiating for your salary.
2. Make a list of what you have to offer.
Know what you have to offer an employer. Make a list of your skills, abilities, talents, and knowledge. Be prepared to show your employer what value you bring to the company.
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October 25, 2006
The interviewing stage of your job search is the most critical. Your success or failure in obtaining a position is often determined at the interview. However, anyone can learn to interview well, since most mistakes can be anticipated and corrected. Learn the following top 25 interviewing techniques to give you a winning edge.
1. Bring extra copies of your resume to the interview.
Nothing shows less preparation and readiness than being asked for another copy of your resume and not having one. Come prepared with extra copies of your resume. You may be asked to interview with more than one person and it demonstrates professionalism and preparedness to anticipate needing extra copies.
2. Dress conservatively and professionally.
What you wear to an interview can make a tremendous difference. It is important to convey a professional image, and it is better to overdress than underdress.
3. Be aware of your body language.
Be alert, energetic, and focused on the interviewer. Make eye contact. Non-verbally, this communicates that you are interested in what the interviewer has to say.
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October 24, 2006
Question ” How do I extract songs that are on my iPod into my music library on my computer? “
Well, for this problem, we are going to use a software application which you should/would have if using an iPod, the good ol’ iTunes. Below is a simple 4 step process in which we can accomplish our goal.
Step # 1: Convert your iPod to act as a drive on your computer
As soon as you plug in your iPod to your computer, the OS would recognize the external device and install the drivers needed for it. Now go to ‘My Computer’, and see if your iPod is being recognized as a disk drive. Your iPod should fall inline after any extra hardrives or Cd-Roms and should read ‘Removable Disk’. If your iPod is showing up, great! You have completed step 1.
Step # 2: Enable ‘View hidden files’ on your iPod
This next step requires us to actually see what is on the iPod through windows explorer. Double click on your iPod icon.
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October 24, 2006
This post comes from my annoyance on one of my machines running Windows XP SP2 as its OS. By default, XP annoits MS Word for editing html pages. It used to worse before I guess with Frontpage launching them. But in any case, here is a quick and easy way to change file type assoications. The examples given are with respect to changing html to open with Macromedia Dreamweaver as the editor by default.
Background Information
“File Type” associations are the links between your documents and the applications that create them. For instance, when you double-click a Microsoft Word Document on your desktop, Windows knows to start Word and instruct it to open the document because of the Microsoft Word Document file type. Likewise, when you click a website link in an email message, Windows knows which browser to open (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer) because of the HTTP Protocol file type.
Microsoft Internet Explorer allows users to open a file they are browsing in an HTML editor by using the File > Edit with (Default Application) option. The application used for this action corresponds to the HTML Editor which is set in the Programs tab of the Windows Internet Options. Macromedia Dreamweaver is not automatically added to this list upon installation. This article helps you to fix that problem
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October 24, 2006
Google just launched a customized search service called Google Co-op to bring tailored search to Web sites and blogs. Co-op allows a user to use the Google search platform to create a search engine focused on any content 
they want with just a few specific websites included. Searches will return results only from the sites the user requested.
Users have a number of options to customize the search engine: choosing which pages they want to include in their index, how the content should be prioritized, whether others can contribute to the index, and what the search results page will look like.
This can be particularly useful for small websites and blogs who wish to monetize their search as the service can be integrated with Google Adsense. The Google Co-op search would be a better choice for bloggers than their default built-in search feature as they can create a search engine with just one site, namely the link to their own blog/website. It allows a kind of social search by allowing other people to add links to the search results and also allows sharing of revenue with those sites who embed your custom search engine into their site.
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October 24, 2006
When system and network admins talk about plugging all the holes and securing their network of denial -of -service attacks, one of the least talked about but one of the most effective network security technique is sinkholing. So what exactly is this ’sinkholing’? This article is part 1 of a two series each expanding an implementing a different kind of sinkhole.
A sinkhole is defined as a method in which we redirect specific IP network traffic for different security reasons including analysis, diversion of attacks and detection of anomalous activities. It has long been deployed by Tier-1 ISP’s globally usually to protect their downstream customers. However, for the network administrators, sinkholes are generally deployed to provide valuable intelligence regarding the security threats their networks are facing. Read on below for more information on sinkholes and the two kinds of sinkhole implementation — darknets and honeynets and how you can use them to obtain valuable information regarding threats and misconfigurations in your network.
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