golden hello

And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers.

As a result, they often must extend a "golden hello" to compensate them for the pay package they left behind.

A Golden hello is a signing bonus offered to an employee of a rival firm, usually an executive.

So today's decision on the golden hellos is something of a coup for the President of the World.'

Compare that to teachers who get £9000 for their one year and then up to £5000 golden hello to pay off their fees.

Notably, he turned down a "Golden Hello" from the Chicago opera house because it violated his religious principles.

It's called the "golden hello."

Such golden hellos are not new, but lawyers representing executives at the negotiating table are constantly coming up with quirky ways to make clients whole.

"Golden hellos"

Mr. Hodgson calls such inducements "golden hellos."

He was a real bright boy in the pre-Big Bang 'Golden Hello' stakes.

In the United States, golden hellos are typically offered to high-ranking executives by major corporations and may be valued in the millions of dollars.

This amount includes fees, taxable expense allowances, pension contributions, benefits in kind and amounts paid to obtain the services of a director ( "golden hello" ).

And for a while - the Golden Time - they hired anybody, giving six-figure 'Golden Hellos' to anyone willing to break a contract.

It is within the power of the Council to make a one-off grant to the World for golden hellos to attract a higher calibre of research workers.

The Golden Handshake, the Golden Hello and Big Bang and the whizz kids have changed all that.

First Direct is offering a £100 "golden hello", which it will double if you are unhappy with its service and decide to switch within 12 months of opening the account.

Smilarly, the promise of "golden hello" sign-on bonuses were accepted standard practice, popular in the industry because they could be used "to pay off the mortgage" the court heard.

Such golden hello payments are intended to make the executive "whole" - in essence to treat the executive as if his career were one smooth ascent with no costly interruptions.

When Marks & Spencer lured Radice away from Selfridges, the London press snickered about the so-called golden hello of $2.2 million that sealed the deal.

Both Mr Midmer and Mr Buchan have been the subject of criticism for bonuses and golden hellos they have respectively received.

Audio (29min 25sec), 26 Sep 2011: With golden hellos and top salaries on offer, engineering companies are willing to go to great lengths to lure top graduate talent.

Competition for filling vacancies has created some attractive recruitment packages for newly qualified social workers, with starting salaries of up to £30,000 and "golden hellos" of up to £5,000.

In the UK a 'golden hello' is a bonus or financial incentive, not for executives, but "to encourage graduates to enter the teaching profession and teach priority secondary subjects in maintained schools".

If "golden parachutes" - rich exit packages of extra cash, stock or retirement benefits - are needed at times to kick out chief executives, golden hellos are increasingly needed to get them in the door.