Finding a career with an annual salary of over $100K presents additional challenges to job seekers. Often filled through word of mouth, these higher paying jobs are not always advertised. Who you know can be more important than what you know. Read these stories to hear how people are finding their way to higher paying jobs.
Success Through NetworkingI was out of work for 14 months. It was much longer than I ever imagined I would be out of work, but during that time, I met lots of wonderful, talented people as I attended a number of job search groups and free seminars.
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Not WHAT you know, but WHO...After 10 years in product management and marketing at the same large tech company, my employer was the target of an acquisition, and the project I had nurtured for over four years was abruptly canceled.
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Try New Strategies and be OptimisticSeveral years ago, a friend told me about Marin Professionals. I took the training that they offer and “learned” about new ways to find jobs. Marin Pro’s consists in a group of high level professionals looking for jobs.
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Perseverance Pays OffAs of last Monday, June 21st, I started my new contract assignment at Ericcsons through the consulting agency Taos Mountain. My title at Ericcsons is Unix System Administrator and I provide support to many labs and many servers.
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Keeping Yourself Busy Between Regular PayChecks - Keep Running and LearnFinally, 2 years and 1 month after receiving my last regular paycheck, I have a fulltime job to go to again this coming Monday.
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Be always positiveI joined ProMatch(1) where I learned lots of skills towards finding a job. I made so many friends and started to open up myself during networking with them.
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Negotiation and Weaving through Hard BallIt all began with a recruiter reaching out to me through Linked In. He was retained as a prime vendor to look for SAP Team Leads.
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Make Sure It's Right For YouI was given my layoff notice midmorning, after eight years with a prominent Silicon Valley software company.
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