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11 Commandments For Smart Negotiating

11 Commandments For Smart Negotiating

In the early part of this decade, the Commerce Department estimated that U.S. businesses would need to hire one million new computer scientists, engineers, systems analysts and computer programmers by 2005. That was five years ago!

Yet graduates with degrees in computer science are still being produced at a fraction of the rate needed. Even though the current economic climate has produced a “seller’s market” in employment opportunities, The Information Technology Association of America reports shortages of web experts and other information-technology specialists, and similar shortages are cropping up in other industries as well.

Repurpose your skills, not learn new ones

Repurpose your skills, not learn new ones

Okay, say you have been trapped in a dead-end job that offered no growth potential, advancement in responsibilities or an eventual key to the Executive Washroom, since the beginning of time. An immediate example would be that of AL BUNDY, the perpetual shoe salesman who peeked at 17 when he ran (more or less) 4 [...]