How about a hard task these days: getting a rise! For two reasons: companies continue committed to reducing costs and the wave of reorganisations and mergers has filled the market with shining stars.

With regard to rises, is it still possible to negotiate a salary? According to José Caetano Silva: “There is an increasing appreciation of risk-sharing” (...)

“It is always possible to negotiate a good potential salary and employees are always ready to give ‘money for value’, in other words, we should be increasingly concerned with knowing how to assess the return of our work for shareholders, thus trying to obtain a promotional premium”.