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Questions relating to advancing one's career; this could include questions about promotions and training or looking for a job outside of the current company

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Higher salary vs Higher net income [closed]

This may sound a weird at first as one usually looks for a job that increases his income; however, what would be the effects of accepting a job offer with lower salary, but results in a high net incom …
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How to split your direct reporters to teams when your manager is against it?

A friend of mine is actually facing this problem. He currently manages around 12 engineers as their direct manager. He's unable to effectively perform his job since he's supposed to have a very hands …
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What is the likely professional impact of requesting an internal transfer because of a bad m...

I work for a company in north Africa that is owned by a bigger company in UK. Reporting hierarchy: Me-->my local manager-->development manager in UK-->IT manager in UK. I'm preparing to request to be …
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What's the difference between mentioning my strengths and "what's special about me"?

In an interview the HR interviewer asked me the following question: What's so special about you the might make me consider hiring you? I was prepared for the classic "Mention some of your streng …
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How should I respond to the classic "Introduce yourself" question in an interview?

Almost any interview begins with the classic question of "Introduce yourself". Somehow I found mixed levels of detail as answers to this question. How should you ideally respond to this question prof …
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How should I explain that I'm looking for a job because my employer may be shutting down?

I'm working for a company "A" that was recently acquired by a larger company "B". There are some rumors that company "B" will shut us down and most employees will have to find somewhere else to work. …
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How to respond to "Why do you deserve a promotion"?

Our company has a new IT manager and it is suddenly the time for promotions. He is still new to the company and he doesn't have much knowledge about the employees. My project manager spoke about my s …
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