Landing a Signing Bonus—Even if It’s Not Advertised

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Many companies are offering signing bonuses to seal the deal with qualified candidates. Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how to ask for one. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O. C.I. is the single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs.
0:06.0	Do more and spend less like Uber 8 by 8 and Databrics Mosaic.
0:11.0	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com
0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:17.0	Here's your money briefing for Tuesday September 24th. I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:27.0	The competition for workers may not be as red-hot as it was a few years ago,
0:31.0	but some companies remain desperate to land qualified candidates.
0:35.6	Career experts say workers still have leverage, and in many cases they should ask for a signing
0:40.4	bonus.
0:41.4	A company won't necessarily volunteer
0:43.8	that you can get it or that they'll offer it.
0:46.3	So it's really incumbent on the candidate.
0:50.0	If they're not especially told
0:51.3	that there will be a signing bonus with this job to ask.
0:55.4	We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Ray Smith after the break. AI may be the most important new computer technology ever, but AI needs a lot of processing
1:14.8	speed and that gets expensive fast.
1:17.2	Upgrade to the next generation of the cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI.
1:22.2	OCI is the single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs.
1:28.0	Do more and spend less like Uber, 8 by 8 and Databroix mosaic.
1:33.0	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com.
1:37.0	Orracle. candidates.
1:52.8	Wall Street Journal reporter Ray Smith joins me.
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