Ten Tips: Negotiating a Job Offer Like a Champion

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Today I write the first of a two part posting in regards to negotiating a job offer. This week I will provide ten tips for job seekers looking to negotiate like a champion. Next week I will mirror this week's post by providing negotiating tips to employers. I have seen first hand how both candidates and employers alike can benefit from the advice and perspective of an honest broker and an outside perspective, regardless of whether a recruiter is engaged or involved in the negotiation process. For job seekers, I hope the following ten tips will assist you in learning how just a few slight changes to your perspective and approach to job offer negotiations can result in dramatically improved outcomes or, at the very least, enhance the possibility of positive outcomes for you. I hope job seekers find my tips helpful.

1) First Decide If You Want The Job Regardless Of Compensation Considerations

Nothing else matters if compensation considerations aside you do not even want the job. Therefore, it is paramount you ask and answer this question before having a compensation discussion with a prospective new azerbaijan whatsapp phone number employer. Remember, just as you hope to exit a job gracefully and on good terms, you should enter and exit a job offer discussion, regardless of the outcome, gracefully and on good terms with the prospective employer. To that end, it does not make sense to push for terms of employment only to decide in the end that the job or the company itself are not for you. The issue of whether or not the job, the hiring manager, or the company itself are a fit for you is something to decide before entertaining an offer, not during or after the discussion takes place.


2) Approach A Job Offer As A Discussion Rather Than A Negotiation

It can be helpful to think of a job offer discussion as the first of many prospective long term partnerships, discussions, and collaborations you will have with your new employer. The job offer terms are the beginning , not the end, of your employment. You can "win" a pre-employment negotiation and still "lose" long term as an unintended consequence of either the way you "negotiated" or the terms you asked for and received. It is a cliche to say this, but be careful what you ask for. With added compensation, special privileges, and/or terms of employment come added expectations for you to deliver results or handcuffs that could keep you locked into a job that you may no longer want 6 months, 12 months, or 18 months from your start date.