The Best from Our Collection

As 2024 comes to an end, we’re starting to recap our highlights of the year so we can continue offering engaging content that helps you achieve your goals, whether it is finding your dream job, excelling in your current position, or assembling a championship team to take your company to the next level.

Therefore, before we turn the page and start planning content for 2025, we want to share with you the articles that had the greatest impact on our audience.

Is it worth accepting a lowball job offer?

Throughout your job search process, you’ll deal with a wide variety of challenges, from crafting a resume that catches the eyes of hiring managers to providing the right answers during a job interview.

If you’re already receiving and negotiating employment offers, a nosy situation you’ll most likely face is receiving a job offer below your current or expected salary.

As frustrating, or even degrading, as this may feel, if you’re expecting to turn around the situation by negotiating the salary or simply walking away from the hiring process, the best thing to do is to remain calm and not take things personally.

Starting the salary negotiation with a low bid is not directly tied to your professional skills or proficiency in the role you’re applying for. Actually, you’d be surprised to know that is considered a common negotiation tactic. Here are other common reasons why employers send lowball job offers:

• Budget changes
• Job postings with different salaries
• New job specifications

If you’ve been caught in a similar situation, check out the complete blog post in our Knowledge Center and learn how to deal with a lower-than-expected salary offer.

Do recruiters make good money?

As a heavy-hitting recruitment agency, we train all our search consultants to perform at the highest level. This not only means that they provide an excellent service that successfully fulfills our clients’ and candidates’ needs, but it also allows them to access big rewards.

If you’re considering a new career as a recruiting specialist, most certainly, one of your concerns is how much you can make at this position. However, there are different pay structures depending on whether you’re an in-house or external recruiter, such as our search consultants.

What you can take for a fact is that if you become a recruiter who works on commission, you’ll have an unlimited earning potential, but how much can you actually make?

Truth be told, it will depend on your commission fee and how many placements you make, but if you want to get a rough idea of your earning potential, at gpac, our commission plan aims to allow our average recruiter to earn up to $90,000 a year.

If you want to learn how much you can make as a gpac recruiter if you get into our top 50 or 10 billers, dive into this article from our blog to find it out.

Starting a career in finance without a degree

Alongside insurance, the finance industry has one of the most promising outlooks for career changers, fresh graduates, or people who are just looking to make their way into a steady labor market.

Despite the idea that finance is a highly specialized industry, you can land a job in this industry without having a finance degree, as many positions and starter careers allow you to develop your know-how. A degree in economics, statistics, or computer sciences is more than enough to get on the money train track.

Even if you don’t have a degree, soft and communication skills are highly valuable in this industry. Suppose you’re a tech-savvy individual or proficient at problem-solving, adaptability, teamwork, or collaboration, and you round up your profile by learning the specifics of the job; in that case, you can get started at one of the following careers.

• Bank teller
• Bookkeeper
• Customer service representative

Check out this blog post and learn how you can land one of the above jobs and discover more positions to start a career in finance without a degree.

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