Advise

It’s the end of the year. It’s time for you to sit down with your manager and do the dreaded PERFORMANCE REVIEW. This event, if handled correctly, should give you a big fat raise in January. You worked all year. You know it. Your coworkers know it. Your manager might not. This is where you’re going to remind ‘em of your value to the company. Make a list of specific things you’ve done. Tell them of specific projects you were involved in. Tell them the steps you took to solve it. The keyword here is “specific.” More details are better than less details.

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Follow these tips from Reesa Staten, vice president of communications and director of research at recruiting firm Robert Half International and Anna Ivey, a Boston-based career and admissions counselor, to increase your salary this year:

I have been seeing this guy for a couple of months, not a long time, i know, but we have spent a lot of time together. This is my first relationship, and I find him very goodlooking, intelligent, kind, caring, generous, same sense of humor, he has a great career and goals in life. However, the other night we got together and i told him that i loved him. his response to me was that he was a very cautious person, and although he really cared for me, was not there yet.