Employment Topics
Can someone with an associate's degree be paid more than I am?
At work, two departments have two separate requirements. One requires a four-year bachelor's degree ...
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How much should it cost to lure me away?
I'm happy with my current job, but out of the blue I received an "opportunity of a lifetime" for a n...
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The Weakness Question
You're sitting in a conference room or office, face-to-face with the person you most want to impress...
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How much should I get for changing jobs?
What is the typical increase a person should get (or should look for) when changing jobs? I'm in the...
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Everyone's a Critic
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Bullish on the Network
Have you been to a trade association event lately? Suddenly heard from an old college buddy? With so...
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Ten Ways to Prepare for an Emergency Job Search
In a recent Salary.com poll, 26 percent of respondents said they had already been laid off, 37 perce...
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Is it OK to fire someone because of an illness?
Three weeks before my scheduled date of resignation, I got sick. After spending a Friday in the hosp...
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You're It! How Layoffs Happen and What to Expect
Michelle Babineau of Boston, Mass. has been laid off three times in seven months. The dot-com vetera...
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Did I get a big enough raise with this promotion?
I recently accepted a new role as a Web assessment client coordinator within an organization for who...
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Is my company taking the right amount out of my paycheck?
I have a weird suspicion that I am not being paid the salary my company offered me last April. My c...
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Terms and Definitions
Before taking advantage of your stock options or participating in an employee stock purchase plan, i...
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Why is my base so much lower than the former sales manager's?
I was hired by a software company at an entry-level sales position. I have a four-year degree and sa...
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Should I have gotten a bigger raise with my HR promotion?
I started with my present company in Raleigh, NC, in February as an HR assistant on a temp-to-hire b...
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Genetic Counselor
Shannon Martin [not her real name] sees more than a dozen patients a week, demystifying scientific j...
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The Value of Online Learning
There are many advantages to online courses and degree programs. Not only does it offer an opportuni...
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Now that I'm on the other side of the table, how should I negotiate?
I just earned a bachelor's degree in human resources management and I have three years of experience...
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Executive Compensation
Chief executive officers (CEOs) get paid lots of money for being the top employees in the company. W...
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How close to the median should I be?
As my experience runs a little short of the job requirements, what should I submit as my salary requ...
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Should I let headhunters lure me away?
I have been at the same company for three years. I work in a relatively small, but expensive state a...
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Can my employer put me on a time clock?
As a salaried exempt supervisor, I have been given more than 40 hours of work per week, had pay cuts...
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Rocket Scientist
Listening to a rocket scientist talk about work is impressive, but tough for the scientifically chal...
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How to Evaluate a Job Offer
Just like an interview, a job offer can tell you a great deal about a potential employer. An offer c...
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Salaried vs. Hourly
I recently hired on to a new company and could use some advice. On my second interview with my new c...
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How should I calculate a part-time rate?
When accepting a part-time position in an office and asked about salary requirements, what is the ap...
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The Severance Package
If your company goes out of business, don't be surprised if there is no severance pay. Going out of ...
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Be Your Own Agent
Who is looking out for your career - your boss? Probably not. Your accountant? Doubtful. Headhunters...
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What if my new employer reneges on a verbal salary offer?
I recently changed jobs, and my new employer refused to honor their verbal salary offer. Asking for...
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What if a salary history is "required," and I don't send one?
In job announcements in the newspaper and elsewhere I sometimes see "send resume and salary history ...
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Why didn't I get a pay-to-stay bonus?
Our company has filed under Chapter 11 with no financial backing. The company is being sold. Our acc...
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Nonprofits
Working in a nonprofit organization brings both material and nonmaterial rewards. Although some nonp...
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What to Look for Before, During, and After an Interview
An interview is the only time during the hiring process when you and your interviewer can form a mut...
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Start with Confidence
Doing research on how to buy a home is itself an investment - in time. On the one hand are the shelv...
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Sales Compensation
Salespeople are a company's ambassadors to the world. They actively promote the company and its prod...
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Interpreting Numbers
Before negotiating an executive salary with a current or new employer, take some time to reflect on ...
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How to Ask about Training
Prospective employees should ask some pointed questions about career development opportunities befor...
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Super-Safe Saving
Saving your money in a safe place may seem like an obvious priority. Why would anyone want to put sa...
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Option Grant Practices in High-Tech Companies
Until it became common practice in the last decade to offer stock options to a relatively broad spec...
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Should I disclose salary requirements?
What should I do when a prospective employer asks for salary requirements or salary history in the r...
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Why am I paid less than the Salary Wizard says I should be?
My title is Senior Web Editor at a growing Internet company in New Jersey. With a nearly exact match...
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Getting Through
Although email and instant messaging are quickly becoming standard forms of office communication, th...
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Productivity Bonuses
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Inventor
"Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity...
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How do I get the raise I thought I was promised?
I was promised by my supervisor, but not in writing, that the company would increase my pay by 10 p...
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Should I take the offer or the counteroffer?
I've recently been offered a position in another company making $6,000 more than I earn now. When I ...
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Hiding a Job Search
I work in an office that has a casual atmosphere. Next week I have a job interview at a company with...
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Salary History
At some point in the job application process, you might find yourself in a tight spot. What do you d...
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Index Funds
Who has the time, interest, or confidence to pick and track individual stocks (unless, of course, it...
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Executive Assistant
She spends her days coordinating meetings, making travel arrangements, and managing schedules....
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Should I ask for a lower starting salary?
I am putting in my resume for a manager's position that has just opened up in the store where I am a...
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Industry News
Chip Vision Taps Craig Cochran as VP
Chip Vision Design Systems, which helps semiconductor companies reduce power consumption with system...
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Cancer Probe Trials Funded
A new grant will allow a researcher to continue developing and testing a device that uses light to d...
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Steve Kelley Joins Cree as Chief Operating Officer
Steve Kelley has joined Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C. as executive vice president and chief operating of...
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John Markovich Hired as Emcore CFO
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Emcore Corp. announced that its board of directors has appointed John M. Mar...
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Laservision Adds Rich Greene to Sales Team
Laser protective product maker Laservision USA of St. Paul, Minn., announced it has added Rich Green...
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Bruker AXS Buying AFM Maker
Analytical x-ray systems manufacturer Bruker AXS GmbH of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced it will acqui...
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Bami Bastani Resigns as Anadigics CEO
Anadigics of Warren, N.J., a provider of semiconductor solutions in wireless and wireline communicat...
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Prism Awards Entry Deadline is Sept. 12
The submissions deadline for the first annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation is Sept. 12. The...
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NXP's Pascal Langlois Transfers to Wireless Venture
NXP Semiconductors of Eindhoven, Netherlands, an independent semiconductor company founded by Philip...
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Teseda Taps Mark Moore as VP; Adds Silicon Valley Office
Teseda Corp. of Portland, Ore., provider of diagnostic and debug solutions for semiconductor yield i...
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Arbor Photonics to Commercialize UMich Optical Fiber
Arbor Photonics of Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed an exclusive license agreement for chirally-coupled ...
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SPIE Show Soars
This year’s SPIE Optics+Photonics symposium was the largest meeting of the annual symposium thus far...
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AEi and 3-Edge Partner for European Sales
Automation Engineering Inc. (AEi) of Wilmington, Mass., will partner with 3-Edge of Munich, Germany,...
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John Carson Appointed Chairman of Irvine Sensors
Irvine Sensors Corp., of Costa Mesa, Calif., a developer of compact solid-state microcircuitry for m...
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Lockheed Buys Nanotech Unit
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced it has acquired the government business unit of p...
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Plexus Closing Mass. Plant
Plexus Corp. announced today it will close its Ayer, Mass., manufacturing facility by March 2009, el...
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ORA Announces Design Contest Winners
Optical software maker Optical Research Associates (ORA) of Pasadena, Calif., announced it has selec...
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Indium Adds 2 to Solar Engineering Team
Indium Corp. of Clinton, N.Y., announced it has hired Clark Scharett and Justin Weiler as manufa...
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Reliant, Philips Partner for Home Laser Skin Care
Reliant Technologies Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., developer of Fraxel laser systems, has announce...
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Veeco, Asylum Research Settle AFM Patent Dispute
Metrology and process equipment provider Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., announced today ...
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Zecotek Photonics: Talented Team Brings Rapid Success
For Zecotek Photonics, the key to its rapid success doesn't lie in cutting-edge technology, an impre...
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Serious Injury Closes Lab
Operations have been suspended at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE...
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Engineer Hurt in Laser Lab
A senior lab engineer at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was ser...
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Vikram Simha Named Vital Images’ CTO, VP of Engineering
Vital Images Inc. of Minnetonka, Minn., a provider of advanced visualization and analysis products, ...
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Applied Materials Promotes Gilad Almogy
Applied Materials Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., a nanomanufacturing technology company, has promoted...
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Jim Marcelli Named CEO of Lightwave Logic
Lightwave Logic Inc., of Wilmington, Del., a technology company focused on the development of electr...
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QD Laser Maker Secures $13M
Innolume, a maker of quantum dot (QD) -based lasers and laser modules, said it has secured approxima...
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Brian Mink to Lead Operations at Reflex Photonics
Reflex Photonics, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of extreme high-speed optical connectivity...
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Light Project Awarded $1.5M
A Stanford University researcher has received a $1.5 million grant to support his project aimed at u...
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Solar Incentive Tax Credit Bill Fails
A bill that would have extended the solar investment tax credit (ITC), which is slated to expire at ...
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FEI and Max Planck Collaborate on Correlative Microscopy
FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., a maker of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck ...
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LightPath Raises $2.9M
LightPath Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of precision optical products, announced that it has rai...
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Corning Buying Component Biz
Specialty glass and ceramics giant Corning Inc. will acquire Optimum Manufacturing Corp. for its Spe...
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Inventor Mulls Widening Case
An inventor who holds the sole patent covering a method of producing LEDs and laser diodes widely us...
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David Tang Appointed CFO, VP for Vimicro
Vimicro International Corp., a fabless semiconductor company, announced the appointment of David Tan...
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PPGI CEO to Resign, Subsidiary GM Named
Photonic Products Group Inc. (PPGI) announced that its president and CEO, Daniel Lehrfeld, will not ...
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SPIE Director Eugene Arthurs Joins Edmund Optics Board
Edmund Optics, a producer of optics, imaging and photonics technology, has elected Dr. Eugene G....
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II-VI Inc. Increases Thermoelectronics Investment in China
Engineered materials and components maker II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., announced that it has made a...
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Palomar Technologies Achieves Management Buy-out
Palomar Technologies of Carlsbad, Calif., provider of precision automation equipment and contract as...
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Corning Forecasts Weaker 3Q
Specialty glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc. today announced second-quarter net income of $3.2 bi...
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KLA-Tencor Buying Vistec Unit
KLA-Tencor, a maker of equipment to detect defects in integrated circuits, today announced it will a...
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Lockheed Acquiring Aculight
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced today it will acquire privately held laser maker ...
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Elbit Supplies Israeli Forces with MARS System
Elbit Systems of Haifa, Israel, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electr...
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Zecotek Signs Deal with Japanese Distributor
Zecotek Photonics of Vancouver, British Columbia, a photonics technology company, has signed a distr...
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Theralase Hires Mark Lemieux
Theralase Technologies of Toronto, Ontario, a manufacturer of superpulsed laser technology, has hire...
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PGT, CyOptics to Merge
Pirelli Group's photonics company, PGT Photonics, will merge with privately held optical components ...
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Corning Selling Steuben
Specialty glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc. said it will sell its 90-year-old Steuben glass divi...
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Former DuPont VP Joins Lightwave Logic Board
Lightwave Logic, a technology company focused on the development of electro-optic polymer materials,...
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Philips Electronics to Relocate Regional HQ to Mass.
Philips Electronics North America, a unit of Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics, announced ...
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Mark Weinswig named VP, Interim CFO for Avanex
Avanex Corporation of Fremont, Calif., a manufacturer of telecommunication components for next-gener...
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