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Brian Braiker

Articles By Brian Braiker

  • Interview Brainteasers

    You've heard of those brain teaser questions that may well come between you and a job someday. No matter how much you may prepare yourself for a job interview, you may never be completely ready when that interviewer asks you why manhole … Read more...

  • The Weakness Question

    You're sitting in a conference room or office, face-to-face with the person you most want to impress - your prospective boss - and he or she is asking you, "What is your biggest weakness?" How do you answer a question like that? Read more...

  • Disclosing Salary History

    Think of divulging your salary history as akin to underbidding in a salary negotiation. Just as you wouldn't want to tell a prospective employer how much you want to make, you wouldn't want to undersell yourself if your salary history was … Read more...

  • Understanding Stock Options

    One of the biggest challenges facing employers is recruiting and retaining qualified, dedicated employees. Over the past decade, with unemployment levels low and the economy doing well, one of the ways businesses in many industries were … Read more...

  • Talking Taxes - The Alternative Minimum Tax

    Last year, a Boston-area high-tech company saw its stock plunge from a record high of $58.75 on January 20, to a low of $1.13 exactly 11 months later in November. One employee, who chose to remain anonymous for this article, exercised 1,000 … Read more...

  • Dream Job: Indie Label Owner

    A self-proclaimed music junky, O'Connell decided to start his own label when Jeremy Steckler, who founded the Now Sound as a sophomore at Duke University, turned to him for advice. "Jeremy was trying to sort out his finances and I noticed … Read more...

  • Dream Job: Yoga Instructor

    After studying Bikram yoga for two years with an instructor in her native Boston, Lauren Fawcett jetted off to Beverly Hills for an intensive nine-week instructor training course. She opened her studio, YogaDuzit, keeping her day job at the … Read more...