Jun 4th, 2007
Do You Know Your Value?
Many clients come to me, wanting to change professions. These women have or have had successful careers; but, sometimes have challenges knowing their value. In the past their value has been determined by their employers, not their necessarily their skill set. Most women underestimate their value.
What’s most interesting is that women make approximately 70% on the dollar compared to their male colleagues. So how do you know your value?
RUN!!!
Research – Your job description and check out websites, books, databases to find out what your colleagues are making in your field.
Update – Your resume, preferably functional. If you don’t what you’ve do, while this are going great, its difficult to see your value while things are challenging (A lay-off, firing, relocation for personal reasons, etc.
Network – If you are not a part of your professional community you will not know the business and salary trends of your industry (Example: IT Salaries are going down – Sometimes called a correction.
Tomorrow – Evaluate Your Personal Value
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Yahoo HotJobs Salary Tools
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/salary/?refsrc=ysem -
Sample Function Resume on Monster
http://content.monster.com/articles/3476/17228/1/home.aspx -
Functional Resumes a Great Tool for Midlife Career Change – Metamorphosis Blog Article
http://4theperfectfit.com/blog/2006/10/30/functional-resumes-a-great-tool-for-midlife-career-change/ -
Metamorphosis Blog Articles on Networking
http://4theperfectfit.com/blog/category/networking/ -
Unmarried Woman Sound Alarm on Pay Inequity
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Report for Women Voices. Women Vote.
http://www.wvwv.org/docs/payequity6.1.pdf
