The Woman Finding You Your Real Value in the Job Market
Human Resources veteran Amy Shratter created a company that will show your professional worth… for fifty cents
Amy and I worked together at the turn of the century for an e-commerce start up in Westwood called PeopleSupport.
We were in the Human Resources dept for an ambitious company that was hiring hundreds of people a year.
For as being as young as she was, Amy was experienced even back then, and professional, and happy. We hired her to help us keep things legit — in part because this was my first rodeo in HR.
She came to us from E! in Mid City.
Amy was fantastic and after the dot com bubble was burst a few years later, she returned to E!
When I was finding a hard time getting work (due to the bubble burst), she got me an interview at E!, which I landed, and during my lunch breaks, I started the busblog, a personal blog about LA that was heavy on fiction.
The success of that blog got me the gig running LAist, where we started the Neighborhood Project in July 2007.
All of that is important because that was the predecessor for Hear in LA.
This thing you’re reading and listening to.
So in a way, Amy placing me at E! started a chain reaction of events that led us hear.
Thank you Amy!
So when I noticed on her LinkedIn that she was starting a new company that could help both HR departments, as well as employees and students trying to figure out what they can expect on the job market, I was all, of course.
And I’m not shocked it’s genius.
Her company, Real Salary, collects millions of salaries and job titles and locations and puts them in an easy-to-use database.
This way if you want to know if you’re being underpaid, for example, at your current gig, you do a search for your job title, city and state, among other options.
And at a click you’ll know where you stand.
Not long ago I was at a company where I felt that after four years of solid, successful work, I deserved a raise. When I went to talk to the HR Director she said my pay was on the same level of others in my field.
How did she know? Who knows?
Now you know. And as Amy says, now you both can negotiate from a valid, current, specific source.
Your company could still say no to you, of course, but they’ll need a different excuse. And now you’ll know where you should be sending your resume.
So in this episode we talk about HR, the boxing gym that inspired her to start the company, and what she loves most about living in Marina Del Rey (it’s probably not Lincoln).
Find out what you’re worth at Real Salary: Real-Salary.com
Connect with Amy on LinkedIn
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Music and music supervision by Jordan Katz.
Special thanks to Cindy for creating the logo, Jen for inspiring this,
And nice HR people who are looking out for everyone!
