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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Most consultants tend to use an hourly rate anyway, because it’s the easiest to figure out, there’s less risk of undercharging, and it’s what most clients are used to. Start by determining how much you would be paid if you were a salaried employee at a corporation, including bonuses. I did this successfully for years.

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How to successfully negotiate anything (not just your salary)

Tom Spencer

Negotiating is something we do every day, with everyone, for everything. We started negotiating as babies when we cried to get what we wanted and gradually built up our negotiation tactics to negotiate dinner locations, job offers, problems with partners, and basically anything that life throws at us.

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Common Career Benefits: The Good, The Bad, and The Unused

Tom Spencer

Imagine this: you are three months away from graduating, and you have five job offers printed out and sitting in front of you on the table. The purpose of this article is, when you are faced with your next job decision, to help you weigh all the relevant factors and choose the correct position for you. Which one do you pick?

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How to Figure Out Your Consulting Bill Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

I know a consultant who is going to do some work designing a company’s program for high-potential employees. The consultant has talent but not much experience. Pricing consulting services is notoriously difficult, particularly for self-employed consultants. Dear Liz, I have a quick question. Can you ballpark this for me?

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Negotiating An Offer Of Employment

Tom Spencer

If you have received an offer of employment from the consulting firm of your choice, you may still want to negotiate the terms of the offer. Your ability to negotiate the terms of your offer depends on how much bargaining power you have. Terms to negotiate. Offer response deadline. Start date.

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How to Approach the Layoff Conversation with Respect and Congruence, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In the US, the company no longer pays health insurance, matches retirement funds, or offers any of the other typical perks of working for a company. Most of those contractors did not negotiate a better hourly rate for themselves. How will they get their salary to date and vacation or other owed pay? ” (What a crock.).

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How Taekwon-Do Prepared Me for Consulting Interviews

Tom Spencer

While my martial arts journey has been long and difficult, it has also been rewarding and improved my professional life as a future consultant. In consulting, you must master certain frameworks before you move on to the next one. You too can achieve success in your consulting interviews. Performing and Executing.