Career Management, Career Tips, Offer

5 Career Lessons, Crowd-Sourced by WSJ

  • On September 3, 2023
WSJ listed some great crowd-sourced tips learned from big career mistakes. These 5 lessons especially apply to lawyers. Build soft skills, which are as important as hard skills. From day one, lawyers need to not only learn the substance of the law, but also how to work with others and communicate effectively. As counsel get […]
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Compensation, Offer

New California Pay Transparency Law

  • On October 9, 2022
Effective January 2023, California employers with 15 or more employees must disclose pay ranges in job postings for applicants and also to employees upon request. (See SB 1162 signed September 27, 2022.) California joins the ranks of Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island and Washington, all states with some form of pay transparency law. New […]
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Compensation, Move, Offer, Title

What Can You Negotiate When You Receive an Offer?

  • On February 20, 2022
Congratulations, you received an offer! Now what can you negotiate? Lawyers are usually quite conservative and want to know precedent, so see below for the list of asks in order of frequency: Compensation. Most employers expect some negotiation over compensation. Compensation is typically made up of base, bonus, and equity, and usually one element (or […]
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Compensation, Interview, Offer

How to Answer “What is Your Desired Salary?”

  • On October 10, 2021
Now that California employers cannot ask you how much you make during the recruiting process, they will likely ask you what kind of compensation you are looking for. (They are asking up front because they usually have a set budget, don’t want to overpay, and don’t want to go through the whole process to find […]
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Offer

Hiring Managers: 4 Take-Aways to Land Your Top Pick of Candidates!

  • On September 26, 2021
In this market, hiring managers need to do more than send candidates through the hiring process and approve an offer at the end. I read with interest this post by a startup on how it closes key hires, engineers in this case. The take-aways still apply to hiring lawyers for any company, large or small: […]
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Career Tips, Offer

Should You Take the Job? 3 Red Flags

  • On September 12, 2021
Most of my candidates are getting multiple offers. I liked this article by Fast Company on red flags to help you decide which jobs to turn down. Here are three red flags: How was the company’s hiring process? Was it super long, complicated, and/or political? Yeah, things like that might continue internally. You can at […]
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Compensation, Offer

Close to an Offer? Don’t Mess It Up!

  • On August 13, 2021
During the interview process, when prospective employers talk about what a good addition you’d make, that’s a great feeling! You are on track for an offer, so don’t mess things up. A few thoughts to stay the course: Do not engage in substantive negotiations until you have offer in hand. You may think you are […]
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