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Should I Include My Salary Requirements In My Cover Letter?
In most normal cases, you should not include your salary expectation in
cover letters unless you have very good reason for doing so. This may
be when a recruiter contacts you after seeing your resume somewhere,
such as an online job board. In this particular case, then it is okay
to reveal your salary expectations early, in order to avoid wasting
your time and theirs. However, barring this one difference, you should
just write the cover letter as you normally would.
Why Shouldn't I Include My Salary Requirements In Every Cover Letter? [Read More] How to Manage Salary Negotiations
Whether you're looking for a new job or trying to make financial gains at the one you're at, you may find that at some point you'll need to make a salary negotiation. But how can you do it if you never have before? [Read More]OdinJobs Releases Job Market Statistics For 3rd Quarter Of 2008
OdinJobs, the largest IT job search
engine, announces the release of the third quarter, 2008 Job Market
Statistics, providing a comprehensive picture of the job market
including historical comparison of the demand trends, median salary
and salary distribution.
ITIL, SOA, BI, MDM, CMDB, BPM - Hot Acronyms Compared
Jason Hiner posted Seven Hot Acronyms that you need to know, to keep up with the trends in IT Management. I decided to compare ITIL, SOA, MDM, BI, CMDB, BPM, the hot acronyms in IT management according to Jason, to see what was popular in the job market and the median salaries for these skills. (I have not used TCO - total cost of ownership in the comparison) For those who are clueless as to what these are, ITIL stands for IT Infrastructure library, a set of concepts and techniques to manage IT.. (wiki) SOA - Service Oriented Architecture, a way to modularize so that components become plug and play MDM - Master Data Management, processes to aggregate unique information about customers, products, vendors, employees etc. BI - Business Intelligence, collection and analysis of business information to support better decision making CMDB - Configuration Management Database, a repository of information about the entire IT infrastructure BPM - Business Process Management, manage business processes through technology to make it more efficient Wow! Don't we love our acronyms/abbreviations. Now continuing to find out what is in most demand and what pays the most. For the attention deficits, I will publish the result first and then the analysis. The most popular acronym is BI - Business Intelligence which averages about 7500 jobs a month. The Acronym that pays the most is CMDB - Configuration Management Database with a median salary of $91.08K.
My advice to current and future IT managers: Learn or at the very least familiarize yourself with SOA. SOA not only shows strong demand in the job market but also pays pretty well.
Php, Perl, Python or Ruby Programmers - Who Earns More?
Salaries Offered for Perl, Php, Python and Ruby Positions
Future salary is a significant motivator for somebody to learn a new language (use it for a living). We used the OdinJobs Market Statistics tool to help us analyze which skill pays more. The market statistics tool helps analyze salaries offered in jobs targeting junior-mid level programmers and senior/Lead/Architect developers. First we compared how salaries varied between a jr-mid level position and a senior level position within a language. The results are below.
This is part of the "What Makes a Programming Language Popular" series where we compare Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. See
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