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The experts will tell you - never - never - EVER accept a counter-offer. Your resignation has already placed you in the outer circle and you will remain there forever. Just leave. A resignation cannot raise your value to the company - he is lying to you.Anecdote: One of our team members - a critical player - wanted a raise and the project boss said no - flat no. So he resigned. Next our project boss took all us leaders into a room to discuss options. He said the project budget had an additional $5000 due to the resignation of another, lower-level resource. Everyone scratched their head. “He’s asking for a $10,000 raise - how can $5000 help?” The project boss sneered - “Because we’ll only need him for another six months to get past the first hump. I’ll fire him after that. So we’ll only spend $5000”I thought he was kidding - but in six months, when the project’s solution was in the testing phase, the client was happy and the team was clicking-along, he took this guy into his office and fired him. Simple as that.Don’t accept a counter-offer.Want to know the best way to cover this? If you know the company likes you and your work, present them with the following:“You know, over time I’ve received a lot of offers to join other companies. I’m not really interested in any of them. I’m happy here. I like the company, the work, the direction we’re going, and I know the company can’t match some of these offers. I get it. All I’m saying is, my wife and I discuss these things, and she’s aware of the money I could make at these other companies. It’s a lot of pressure. My question is, even if the company can’t match any of those offers, could the company close the gap a little? If not, I totally understand. You’re running a business and will pay me what you think I’m worth. Let me know your thoughts.”In this, we are appealing to their priorities without threats, resignations, or ultimatums. We are recognizing their priorities while sharing a reality - other companies think I’m worth more. We’re also showing we are committed to the company’s goals - we’re not interested in leaving and we are happy here. We’re also showing a spirit of cooperation in not requiring a “match” - just a bump. But we can set that bump to anything we choose. They will never ask you for an offer letter to prove the offer is real. And if they do, simply decline. It is unprofessional to ask.The first time I said this to a boss, I told him what I was being offered and he whistled. “We can’t match that.” - I said “I know, and like I said, I’m not asking you to. I’m just wondering if you can close the gap a little. If that’s my market value, seems you would want to take a stab at closing the gap. I’m happy here. I’m not interested in leaving.”Every time I’ve tried this, the boss worked out a raise for me. Life went on and we went on to do a lot of things together. Non-threatening. No destroyed trust. No extortion. In fact, each time the boss gave me more responsibility considering I was being paid more - that’s fair - so it came as a raise and a promotion.Asking for a raise isn’t particularly an art form. You need to think like your boss thinks - what are his priorities, goals objectives - you joined the company to meet them, and suddenly when you ask for money it becomes adversarial? No, no, no. It should never be adversarial. It should follow a very simple tried-and-true template:Goals: You must show you fully understand the boss’s goals. He’s not interested in any of yours. If you ask for a raise to purchase a new fishing boat, or a car, or a home, or fulfill a life-goal - none of these things are important to him. Align with and only regard his goals. And make sure you know what they are.Authority: Recognize and do not challenge his authority. No resignation, no extortion, nothing that threatens his reality. You want him thinking on a different plane - the plane you want to meet him on. He has the authority to give you a raise - or not - and the authority to fire you for asking. You need to be prepared for the worst but hope for the best. Why challenge his authority when he may exercise it to lop your head? Why not regard and honor his authority “I know you’re running a business and if you can’t meet this, I totally understand. I’m just exploring the possibility here.”Reputation: The boss does not want to damage his own reputation by allowing you to slip through his fingers and potentially go to work for his competitors. If you are good at what you do, he will want you doing it for him. It makes him look good. Make sure your words align with this reality without saying so. Like “What will people think of you if I walk across the street and work for your competitor” - this is not an appeal to reputation, but an open threat. He already knows your potential employers are his competitors. The reputation-point you are appealing to is his affinity for fair-dealing - that is - pay you what you are worth. He knows if he does this for you, you will say good things about him. If he doesn’t do this for you, you will be an employee under pressure and unsatisfied, and this will come through - indirectly - in every interaction. If he wants you productive and happy, he’ll strongly consider it. It makes him look good - to you if nobody else.Above mediocrity: Asking for a raise means you cannot be a cog-in-the-machine. You have to stand out. Raises mean the company has recognized your value. If you are mediocre, there’s nothing to recognize. So if you have been “doing good work” but have not stood-out with exemplary work and conduct, the likelihood he will honor your request is a lot lower. In fact, if you are mediocre, he may think you have found a new employer to pay you more, and they don’t realize how mediocre you are. Being above mediocrity means stepping-up and stepping-out - (of the crowd) - step-up to solve larger problems - step-up to more responsibility - step-out to “increase your coast” - that is -make yourself known in other areas of the company - even to the point of writing industry articles - or books - which increase your value to the company as a thought-leader.A man worked for me who was ten years my junior, had a bachelor’s and master’s degree, but zero experience. He was being paid well considering the work he was doing. I would agree he was doing work beneath his level, but he was being paid fairly for it. He came to me and asked for huge raise. He’d examined the marketplace, and thought he had that kind of value. My answer was - I won’t disagree on your assessment of your value, but if it’s true, you’re working for the wrong company. I can say this company will never pay what you are asking for, for one simple reason - you are an individual player today, but the money you’re asking for is more than many managers with large teams are being paid. They manage multiple projects and juggle a lot of activity, with responsibility for their project’s budget, timelines, deliverables - and you aren’t doing any of that. This company won’t pay you more than them.He stared at me. “So I guess that’s that.”I knew what he intended, but when he left and went to work for another company, his pay increase was only a few thousand dollars (so I was told), not the tens-of-thousands he was asking for. Our company would have paid him that kind of increase, but not what he was asking for. I still recall when he asked for it, and I shook my head, he jolted forward in his chair and said “You don’t think I’m worth that?” It’s not a matter of what I think you’re worth - or what the market thinks you’re worth - this company will never pay you that. I don’t even have to bother asking.On your new employer interview: If they don’t already know, they might ask you “why are you leaving your current employer” - and your answer should be, without hesitation - “I’m not leaving them. I’m perfectly happy with my job. I learned you had some interesting work here, and I’m always open to new opportunities.” Not only does this disarm the question, it requires the potential employer to sell their opportunity to you. In many hiring scenarios, the candidate is drilled for their skills and talents but very little is said about the company, the job they might be doing, etc.In an employer’s market, they don’t have to sell it to you - there are a glut of candidates and you need to sell yourself. In an employee’s market, the company can’t find good people so needs to sell the opportunity to you. Both the company and the candidate should be actively selling themselves to the other.

There is no one answer that fits all cases. Decisions are taken by the visa officers looking at so many different things in an application, no one can genuinely help you without looking at all the details. Most study permit refusals follow a standard refusal template with up to 5 generic reasons. These letters are usually not very helpful to identify officer’s concerns in the application. Below are some of the major concerns I have seen officers having for refusals under the standard reason “purpose of visit”:Reasonableness of the study plan: You were not able to convince visa officer through your SOP that this program is a logical career progression, and how it will contribute to your career when you come back to home countryTies to Home country: You were either not able to establish strong ties with your home country/current country of residence, or your Canadian ties were equally strongFinancial standing: Based on your financial situation, officer may consider that this step is not logical or reasonable. A common example to explain this better: if you enrolled in a 2-year program, paid first year tuition upfront and proved you have expenses for the first year - you will meet the minimum requirement of application. However officer must see source of your second year tuition as well as expenses. Thus, a strong financial standing was required over & above the minimum requirement.The above is far from being an exhaustive list of possible reasoning. It is also recommended to order GCMS notes, if you work with an authorized representative - they can do it for you. I must say, getting approval on second application will be far more challenging - these are some of the hardest applications I do for study permits. Overcoming refusals is not easy.Good Luck!

In March 1783, a group of officers gathered in Newburgh, NY to plan a coup against the fledgling government of the United States. They were extremely upset that the Continental Congress was well on its way to reneging on the promise of paying what was owed to them and their soldiers, those who had risked everything and sacrificed so much to create the new nation. These officers believed that politicians could not be trusted, and were skeptical that a republic born with a massive debt could long survive anyway—two assumptions with which any reasonable person of the day would have concurred. They believed that only a strong monarch could see the justice of their claims, give the new country legitimacy among the other monarchies of the world, and prevent the Continent from descending into civil war. They believed that George Washington should be that monarch. In fact, no one besides their long-time commander could possibly unite the country behind him.All that Washington had to do was agree to take the power, and all the mess and risk of trying to establish a republic—the improbable dream of two millennia—would evaporate, and America could quickly achieve normalcy in the world in which it was born. And if Washington went along, it would have fit the pattern of nearly every successful military leader since ancient times.Except…there was, according to history or legend, a successful military leader from Ancient Rome named Cincinnatus who had given up the Imperium he had earned by saving Rome in order to return home to his plow, thus preserving the Roman Republic.Washington chose the path of Cincinnatus. On March 15, he showed up at Newburgh, aware of the plot, but refusing to dignify it. Instead, he gave the speech of his life, appealing to their sense of honor and love of liberty, pausing to read a letter from a Congressman that would promise to address their grievances. As he opened the letter, he reached for his glasses, something he had never done in front of his men during the war, saying “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." With that humble act, moving some of his officers to tears, the conspiracy was broken. The American experiment, long shot though it was, would be allowed to proceed.George Washington was not alone in making America happen, but it could not have happened without him.And he owned slaves.Also: I think that answering the nominal question doesn't completely address what it is really asking. It was really meant to call not just Washington’s greatness into question, but America’s. The implicit, unstated premise is that the United States is just another country, unexceptional in any meaningful way, that the American model for democracy and freedom that would provide a template for the modern world was no big deal, and that therefore what Washington helped to create could be significantly diminished by his personal failings.This premise is, I think, neo-Marxist horse$&!t of the kind that underlies much of the garbage about 21st Century America being a “racist” country.America’s greatness is ultimately grounded in the principles for which its founders risked their lives and fortunes, including the right to life and liberty, incomplete as they were at the nation’s birth, but continually improved upon through struggle and time via the brilliant system they set in motion.