{"id":2988,"date":"2016-04-19T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/landed-a-new-gig-heres-what-you-need-to-know-before-signing-any-noncompete-agreement\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:49:10","slug":"landed-a-new-gig-heres-what-you-need-to-know-before-signing-any-noncompete-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/landed-a-new-gig-heres-what-you-need-to-know-before-signing-any-noncompete-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Landed a new gig? Here&#039;s what you need to know before signing any noncompete agreement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"86aced3b8557449c9f966926d6826b02\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE5LzZlLzg2YWNlZDNiODU1LjVlZjhkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/d8b15d31\/7e5\/86aced3b8557449c9f966926d6826b02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Landed+a+new+gig%3F+Here%27s+what+you+need+to+know+before+signing+any+noncompete+agreement.&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F19%2Fwhat-to-know-noncompete-agreement%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F19%2Fwhat-to-know-noncompete-agreement%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Congratulations, you\u2019ve been offered the jobs of your dreams\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0now just sign away any future career prospects for the next several years and it\u2019s all yours. Noncompete agreements were once limited to executive-level hires, but as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/02\/21\/the-rise-of-the-non-compete-agreement-from-tech-workers-to-sandwich-makers\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><i>The <\/i><\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Washington Post<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> last year, more employers are asking their workers to sign noncompete agreements for a variety of low- and moderate-paying jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/career-advice.monster.com\/salary-benefits\/salary-information\/noncompete-agreements\/article.aspx\">According to Paul Barada<\/a>, salary and negotiation expert at Monster.com, as the economy becomes more tech-oriented, \u201cemployers are more concerned about preventing the technical and intellectual property they\u2019ve developed from being copied by others.\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/19\/what-to-know-noncompete-agreement\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hiring-process\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hiring Process<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/noncompete\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Noncompete<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/jobs\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Jobs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/contirbutor\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Contirbutor<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/1TJrVVUlJG4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, you\u2019ve been offered the jobs of your dreams\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now just sign away any future career prospects for the next several years and it\u2019s all yours. Noncompete agreements were once limited to executive-level hires, but as The Washington Post reported last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/19\/landed-a-new-gig-heres-what-you-need-to-know-before-signing-any-noncompete-agreement\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,2270,2268,805,2269],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-contirbutor","tag-hiring-process","tag-jobs","tag-noncompete"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}