" Again, you should say something like "My total compensation is in the high five figures, but every company has a different mix, so tell me how you see the compensation for this position being structured.

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Which, in essence, is that you should never listen to what people say about something but should instead look at what they actually do.

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After all, when speaking to the NEWS media, you should have something new to say.

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"You should say, 'It's something that can help me be more effective, '" Brackett advises.

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When we advocating you prepare yourself for the next job, we are assuming you will be doing it on your own time (unless your company has some ongoing training program they want you to be a part of.) And when we say, if you are unfulfilled at work you should find something fulfilling outside of it, we mean exactly that.

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There's also a section of the website where you can video yourself on let's say your mobile phone doing something you think is really cool that you think should be a Guinness World Record but as far as you know it's not at the moment.

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