Should I Include My Salary Requirements In My Cover Letter?

Posted by Carl Williams at 10:44AM Feb 09, 2009

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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?
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How to Manage Salary Negotiations

Posted by Carl Williams at 02:14PM Jan 21, 2009

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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?

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OdinJobs Releases Job Market Statistics For 3rd Quarter Of 2008

Posted by Carl Williams at 09:55AM Nov 20, 2008

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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.

"The market statistics tool allow users to query our knowledge base of over 8 million jobs to determine salary distribution and job demand" says Naveen Bala, founder and president of OdinJobs.com. "Users can preform a what-if analysis using multiple skill combinations to see what is still in demand and what pays more".

"Salary tools in the market heavily depend on surveys and do not support what if analysis", says Bala. "Every working and job seeking professional need to use this tool to see if their skill combination is still hot in the market. This tool is also available as a downloadable and customizable widget that can be added to any website or blog".

Visit http://www.odinjobs.com/StaffIT/MarketStatistics to see the tool in action, or go to http://www.odinjobs.com/tools.html to customize this tool for your blog or website.

OdinJobs tracks the technology job market by monitoring thousands of corporate web sites, job boards and blogs. IT professionals, employers and recruiters can drill down on the basis of job roles (development, testing, management etc) or by popular skills and analyze the market across the United States.

About OdinJobs.com

OdinJobs (www.odinjobs.com) finds the right job for a job seeker, where ever it may be. Odinjobs uses its AI based matching to identify the right jobs based on a job seeker's qualification and preference. OdinJobs makes job searching easy, fast, and more relevant.

 





ITIL, SOA, BI, MDM, CMDB, BPM - Hot Acronyms Compared

Posted by Naveen Bala at 12:25AM Feb 05, 2008

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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.

 

 

 ITIL, SOA, MDM - Job Demand (July' 06 - June' 07)
 ITIL SOA MDM Job Demand

 

 ITIL, SOA, MDM - Median Salary Comparison

 MDM SOA ITIL Salary Comparison

 

 BPM CMDB BI - Job Demand (July'06 - June'07)
 BPM CMDB BI Job Dmeand

 BPM, CMDB, BI - Median Salary Comparison

 BPM CMDB BI Median Salary

 
 The Acronyms Ordered by Job Market Demand
  Avg. Jobs/Month
Median Salary
 BI 7500 $78.59K
 SOA 4000 $87.80K
 BPM 3000 $84.34K
 ITIL 2800 $80.98K
 MDM 500 $82.34K
 CMDB 200 $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?

Posted by Naveen Bala at 08:38PM Nov 19, 2007

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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.

 Perl Median Salary

 Perl Median Salary Comparison

 Senior level architects and lead programmers using perl earn 10% more than the developers. This is a median salary, which means a lot of variation in salaries is squished into a single number. In all jobs that required perl, the median salary was $80,560. The variations in median salary also varies according to locations but this chart has been generated for the entire United States.


 PHP Median Salary Comparison

  Median Salary for All Php jobs: $66,200

  Median Salary for Php Architects: $71,000

  Median Salary for Php Developers: $64,540


 Php Median Salary

 

 Python Median Salary

 Python Median Salary Comparison


Median Salary for all Python Jobs: $75,720

Median Salary for Python Architects: $80,310

Median Salary for Python Developers: $74,790 


 Ruby Median Salary Comparison

Median Salary for all Ruby Jobs: $74,150

Median Salary for Ruby Architects: $82,890

Median Salary for Ruby Developers: $ 73,880

 Ruby Median Salary

 


 


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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