Once a candidate passes both of those, we start salary negotiations.

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And just as surely, you'll start comparing your salary with the salary of the guy in the next cubicle.

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You've considered a career change, but you don't want to start at the bottom at a lower salary after building a very successful career.

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Some, like Credit Suisse, offer around six months' salary to new employees who agree to start a year later.

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Big companies have a big advantage in recruiting today's most valuable resource: talent. (Graduates have debts, and many prefer the certainty of a salary to the lottery of stock in a start-up.) Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.

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You have the right to start out with low payments and gradually increase the amount as your salary increases.

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