Advancing Your Career (Spring)
Thu, Mar 02
In this session we're going to cover three topics that will repeatedly resurface throughout your professional career: Negotiation, Promotion, and Mobility. All three are personal aspects of work, yet they have drastic effects on the broader economy. Today we'll explore this relationship.
We have three main in-class learning goals. By the end of lecture today you will:
- Think about the interplay between personal success and the distribution of resources in a community.
- Learn about how different people approach negotiations in different ways.
- Understand when it's easy to move from job to job, and when it isn't.
The slides for today's lecture.
Read This:
Patrick McKenzie says Make More Money, Be More Valued
Paul Graham on the roots of inequality in America.
Holly Wood provides a rebuttal to Graham.
Hannah Riley Bowles writing in the Harvard Business Review on Why Women Don't Negotiate Their Job Offers
Vivian Giang writing in Fast Company on why You Should Plan on Switching Jobs Every Three Years for the Rest of Your Life
Conor Dougherty writing in the New York Times on How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In
Joe Mullin writing in Ars Technica on the infamous Silicon Valley "no-poach" deal.
The following optional readings will give you more background on salary negotiations, noncompete clauses and worker mobility:
Facebook, Google and Netflix pay a higher median salary than Exxon, Goldman Sachs or Verizon
Being rich wrecks your soul. We used to know that.
Ask Hacker News: How much do you make at Google?
Ask Hacker News: How much do you make at Amazon?
The Noncompete Clause Gets a Closer Look
Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs
Interns' Job Prospects Constrained by Noncompete Agreements
In This Economy, Quitters are Winning
Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
Do This:
Writing Reflection 06
Instructions for Writing Reflection 06.
This writing reflection is due on 3/2 at 12pm.
This Week's Dialogue Group Meeting
Find at least one hour to meet with your group to discuss the prompt of the week: "How are you preparing for your job search in the technology industry"