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Stock options. Many employees of startups and corporations get to hear this term when their compensation is being discussed. It is often used as a proxy for ‘if the company makes it big, then you get to share in that too, and you will be wealthy.’ However, behind the simple

Getting paid what you are worth can be a challenge, especially if you don’t know your worth. Before digging into how to get paid more, you should understand your compensation (or prospective compensation if you are looking at a job offer). Once you’ve got a handle on the

It is common to think of compensation purely as salary – the money you get paid for the basic work that you do. But many people get compensated with more than just salary. For those in sales, there are commissions; for many service workers, there are tips. There are bonuses for

You are not getting an accurate picture of the job market. With the best intentions, family, friends, colleagues, and overall public discourse offer advice about the economy, interviewing, and the job market. Usually, they parrot back platitudes or repeat what they have heard from someone who knows someone who really

We’re used to feeling like WFH is normalized, but what about no work at all? It’s time to normalize that too. Maybe you were away on an intergalactic excursion. Perhaps it was that gap year you never got to take and wanted to reclaim. Whatever the reason, if

Yamini Rangan, CEO of Hubspot, once said, “great leaders are great learners.” Being able to learn consistently from your feedback is undeniably tricky. In fact, many of us have a feedback trigger – a fixed mindset that occurs when we receive feedback. Often, people with such a feedback trigger will tend