Imagine the situation : your colleague in Recruitment is looking to prepare the package offer for a candidate. This candidate is already working in the same GCC country as your company, but their pay is composed differently than yours. Their current package is composed of basic and a single living allowance, as well as a sales…
Comparing salary ranges? Really?
June 14, 2012 by 2 Comments
I was recently approached by a well-meaning Organisation Development specialist working for a governmental organisation. This gentleman emailed me the following : “I have been requested to benchmark our salary grades with other (semi-)government entities. Therefore we are approaching some organizations to see what they can share with us. We are mainly interested in the…
How to create a drop-down list in Excel
June 10, 2012 by 5 Comments
In this edition of Sunday Skills, I want to show you how to create a drop-down list in your Excel sheets. This is really useful when you are collecting information from multiple sources and you want to ensure that the data you collect is easy to compile and use for analysis. For example if you…
Is the right person preparing your compensation survey file ?
May 27, 2012 by 2 Comments
Welcome to the final instalment in this May series on compensation surveys. After arguing why you should participate in compensation surveys and sharing 4 habits to simplify your preparation, and then 2 more tips to prepare the salary survey submission files, I gave some ideas of where you could look for information when benchmarking retail…
What are useful retail compensation surveys and benchmarks in EMEA ?
May 20, 2012 by 2 Comments
Fourth instalment in my monthly theme of Compensation Surveys. We have covered so far Why you should participate to compensation surveys, 4 habits to simplify participating to compensation surveys, and 2 more tips to prepare your files for submission to compensation surveys. Today I will share my reply to a question that a contact on…
2 more tips to prepare your files for submission to compensation surveys
May 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Third post in my monthly theme around Compensation Surveys. So far I have covered Why you should participate to compensation surveys as well as 4 habits to simplify your participation to salary surveys. Today let me give 2 more tips to help you prepare your submission. Employee identification In a survey you should always strive…
