u/lvl100totodile

I was offered an OCONUS position with the firm, after some negotiation I got to a total comp of 150k, unfortunately it’s a cut from my current job but I have no interest in staying.

The Visa process has been excruciatingly slow and is probably going to push the time from the offer letter to the international assignment letter to about 4 months if not more.

I have in the meantime gotten some relevant certifications.

I was exploring the idea of once they issued the international assignment letter I would counter a raise of maybe 20%, with my thought process being the money they have not gotten waiting for me to fill the seat, the amount of money they would also not gain if they denied my counter and decided to not hire me and to go through the entire process again with someone new which I would value maybe at least 100k in fees they can’t bill the govt, and with the extra certs being the “difference” from the original offer to now.

Is this unethical? Or is it me just trying to get the most out the multi billion dollar company?

Passed!

2x Target, 2x Below Target, 1x Above Target. A pass is a pass 😂

Genuinely pleased with this one. I studied for about two weeks on a whim, partly to see whether I could and partly because it would help me be competitive for a new role I was eyeing up.

I wasn't sure where to go for practice questions.Getting the book is one thing, but I don't absorb material well in that format, and iZen came recommended often enough that it seemed worth trying.

I ended up doing only the practice questions, and I didn't even finish those, roughly 100 were still left when I sat the exam. I tried the videos, but the pace was too slow. Speeding them up made the accent too hard to listen to, and when I switched to reading the transcripts I lost interest entirely.

I'd rate the question bank a 7 out of 10. I was scoring consistently under 60% until mock exam 4, where I started clearing 70%.

Some questions are excellent: the format closely mirrors the real exam, the explanations go into real depth, and the knowledge is applicable. Others are poor, bad grammar, typos, no explanation beyond "A is correct," and a few answers that appear to be wrong outright.

That said, I'd still buy it. At minimum it got me back into the PMI mindset and gave me the repetition I needed to make the material stick.

Good Luck!

Why is it there is never jobs in Spain/Rota? Is it just there is not a real footprint so low amount of jobs or are the people who are already there so happy to be there they just never quit? I'd love to work there but there just isnt any jobs :(