A Great Job Can Wait a Week. A Desperate One Can't
An exploding deadline tells you more about the employer than about the job. Eight tells ...
"I Don't Want to Seem Greedy" Is a Sentence Written by the HR Department
The hardest part is never the ask. It's not filling the silence afterward with an apology.
The $500,000 Job That's Poorer Than the $400,000 One
The bigger number isn't the better job. A second-year resident on the mistake he watches ...
"Is My Offer Good?" A Benchmark Knows. Your Recruiter Has Feelings
A benchmark is a number with a source and a date. An opinion is a number with a feeling ...
They're Not Betting on Your Weakness. They're Betting on Your Exhaustion
"I just want this settled" is one of the most expensive feelings you can bring to a ...
Salary Is the Least Interesting Thing on the Table
Why the biggest number in a physician offer is the worst predictor of whether you'll ...
The Non-Compete: Same Eleven Words, Wildly Different Cage
25 miles, 12 months. The identical clause can be a formality or force your family to ...
"It's Our Standard Contract" Is the Most Expensive Sentence in Medicine
You can win every dollar in the compensation section and still lose your evenings to one ...
One Number Decides Your Paycheck, and Most Doctors Can't Name It
The conversion factor sets your income more than the salary on the first page does. Most ...
Who's Actually Keeping Your Money?
Dr. Jeff Williams spent twenty years hiring physicians. The question he says almost ...
Your First Salary Will Haunt Every Salary After It
A $20,000 gap in your first offer becomes roughly $950,000 over a career. Same work, same ...