A Rock Solid Personal Finance System

A transition from pharma requires more than just a conversation about replacing a car allowance and a cellphone.  Getting your personal finances under control is critical so you can focus on the opportunities that lie ahead, and not on the numbers dwindling out of your bank account!

We thought it would be helpful to put together this section on some recent thinking, tools and resources from the world of personal finance that may help you to stretch a dollar and get your finances in order as you prepare to start fresh.     Read more

Your Finance Strategy: Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader?

It’s amazing how much adults can make simple concepts complex.  Take this blog post for example.  When we started writing this section, we began scouring the Internet for the latest in personal finance tips, tricks, techniques, tools, training, and thinking on the latest and greatest personal finance strategies.

After dozens of starts and stops along the way, it turns out everything we really wanted to say was already written in crayon by Jenna Fink (a 4th grader from Frisco, TX).     
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Analyze Your Finances

If it’s true that you can’t manage what you can’t measure, then most of us aren’t doing a very good job of managing our money.

(Coming from an industry that gave us car, gas, phone, and meal allowances probably hasn’t helped our ability to analyze our spending habits, either.)

As some of us prepare to leave the perks behind, there are two free services that we wanted to highlight that can help you analyze and optimize your finances. Read more

Automate Your Finances

We had already mentioned that our first financial wake up call came from a 4th grader, but this next one comes from NY Times Bestselling Author Ramit Sethi, financial blogger and author of a new book called, “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”.

His book is great, and his blog is filled with a ton of valuable information, but the concept that really hit home for us was his discussion on willpower, and how it just doesn’t work for most of us.     Read more

Utilizing Recruiters - Some Tips from Robyn Thompson

A big resource when searching for the next great job is the world of head hunters or recruiters.

The premise seems at the outset fairly simple, send your resume, maybe meet for a quick chat and sit back and wait for the job interviews to start pouring in. This might have been the case a number of years ago when the market was flush with opportunities and companies were expanding. But nowadays when the exact opposite is happening and jobs are being pulled as quickly as they once appeared, the job seeker now has to approach job hunting and the utilization of recruiters with a bit more canny. Let’s be honest, recruiters don’t really care about you, they care about their clients. This isn’t to knock the profession but it is to set realistic expectations about where you stand in the food chain. Recruiters aren’t placing you out of the goodness of their heart – they are getting paid to do so and as such, have a responsibility to their customer. In the majority of cases that customer isn’t you.
Given the market dynamics today with few jobs and too many candidates, the real question is how do you get your hands on those prime accounts in a recruiter’s portfolio?

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