This week’s instalment of my monthly theme includes a few habits that I developed to make my life easier when comes the time to participate to compensation surveys. Right now in the UAE, you must be thinking about collecting the data and preparing it to submit to the various providers that you have selected as…
Why you should participate to compensation surveys
May 3, 2012 by 7 Comments
Today marks the launch of an experiment in my blogging. As you know, I post 3 times per week, with some topics coming on a regular basis. I want to try something out and introduce a Theme of the Month. Through this new approach, I want to provide a bit of consistency to my posts,…
The value of post-mortem analysis for Compensation projects
April 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
A practice has helped me a lot in my career : to perform a post-mortem at the end of a project. You may call it a recap, wrap-up or a review. Post-mortems are common in the software engineering industry. Well, after all I worked for both Microsoft and Apple – I had to learn something…
Two Excel functions to save time in compensation files
April 15, 2012 by 1 Comment
Two functions in Excel can help you save time when performing analyses on big compensation files : conditional formatting and sorting. Imagine you have big file with salary information and you want to find out who are the lowest paid of managers in the organisation. But titles are all over the place, not specifically tied…
A practical tip for your Compensation files
April 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Today I just want to share a quick, practical tip for preparing Compensation files. It’s nothing complicated but it comes straight from the experience of preparing tens (if not hundreds) of these files over the years. If you follow this simple advice you will save yourself time and stress when you are asked to include…
Compensation provider Birches Group extends its reach in the region – an interview with Warren Heaps
February 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
My friend Warren Heaps is a Partner at Birches Group, an independent consulting firm specialised in providing compensation information in over 180 emerging and developing countries. Birches Group very recently announced that they have entered into an agreement with Aon Hewitt, one of the major global compensation consultancies. Under the partnership, Aon Hewitt will make…
Should you rely on free compensation data from magazines and recruitment organisations?
February 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Recently a few recruitment organisations have issued free “salary guides” for certain countries or industries. Magazines, whether business oriented or focused to the individual consumer, also run regular reports and guides with exciting titles like “Are you paid enough ?”. There are even websites where you can get free pay information (say, regarding a position…
