Practical career advice
Scripts, strategy, and tools for big career conversations
Negotiation help, compensation context, and straight answers you can use right away.
Guides
Choose your guide
All industries12 min
Offer Negotiation Playbook
- A step-by-step sequence you can adapt to the employer
- Word-for-word scripts you can actually use
- What to ask for beyond base salary
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Engineering and product roles12 min
Tech Compensation Playbook
- Questions that make equity and level easier to evaluate
- How to separate cash, target bonus, and equity
- How to make a clear counter without overstating leverage
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Tool
Compensation Calculator
Compare offers on the same four-year timeline, model equity assumptions explicitly, and separate guaranteed cash from target compensation.
The philosophy
Written from the recruiter's side of the table
These guides explain how a request moves through a hiring team, which facts help someone evaluate it, and what you can say without overstating your leverage.
Real scripts, not theory.
Every conversation in these guides is something you could actually say out loud.
Backed by research.
Research links are included where relevant, with source limits stated plainly.
Built for your next conversation.
Not a course. Not a webinar. Pick what you need and use it this week.
Connected research