Salary Negotiation During An Interview.

The recruitment process is considered incomplete until the parties involved reach an agreement on the take home salary for the applicant.

The parties in this context are the employer of labour and the employee or the recruiting firm and the candidate. Whether it’s advertised or not in a job description, it is professionally advised to avoid asking about how much a job pays in a job interview until the recruiting firm or hiring manager brings up the topic on salary negotiations. This is so because it’s believed that asking about a job’s salary at the early stages of the interview puts the candidate at risk of sounding uninterested in the other aspects of the job except the renumeration.

As a job seeker, it’s wise to prepare for this aspect of your interview, by using the information you have gathered before and during to determine how much you are willing to take, and your lowest limits as well. One of the key ingredients to a successful collaboration is good communication.

Having a good rapport with your prospective employer will help to know what is at stake and if it’s worth it or not. It’s one thing to prepare and it’s another ball game to know how to communicate such in a very clear and unambiguous ways.

Here are 7 Salary Negotiation Tips to help you prepare ahead of the negotiation process.

1. Evaluate your value and what you have to offer.

a. Geographic location

b. Industry experience

c. Leadership experience

d. Educational level

e. Skill sets

2. Research and understand the market average salary.

3. Prepare salary range template.

4. Outline your talking points.

5. Identify incurable job-related expenses.

6. Be confident.

7. Be flexible.

8. Ask questions.

Do you have any tips of salary negotiation that has worked for you? Kindly share with us in the comments.

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