New answers tagged negotiation
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Salary Range Negotiation
is it usually very difficult for him to negotiate an offer of say
$190K compared to say $120K?
Yes.
A 58% difference from what you were offered is often very difficult to negotiate, certainly harder ...
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Salary Range Negotiation
A salary range that great will usually mean that what the candidate is ultimately offered will be based on their experience and knowledge. Unless you can convince the company that the experience and ...
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I changed my mind about relocating, after accepting a job offer. How do I present my case to my manager?
I'm assuming that you want to work in home office rather than at the new employer's site.
In my country, the work location is fixed in the work contract.
I assume this is the case in your work ...
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I changed my mind about relocating, after accepting a job offer. How do I present my case to my manager?
How do I communicate to my manager about staying at my position and in
my current city?
You tell your manager that you changed your mind and want to stay. Then you ask if that is possible.
Sometimes, ...
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I changed my mind about relocating, after accepting a job offer. How do I present my case to my manager?
There's nothing unethical about changing your mind. Not a bit. Communicating this is may be as simple as saying, "Sorry, I changed my mind."
However, there may be consequences for you ...
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Requesting Salary Outside of Advertised Range
Is it, generally speaking, very difficult to negotiate a salary ... ~10% above the advertised salary upper bounds)?
Not really. You should to bring this up fairly early in the interview process. If ...
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Requesting Salary Outside of Advertised Range
The honest answer is 'It depends'.
To expand upon this, these are the factors that would influence it:
The Companies budget. If the company only has the budget for $130K, then they only have the ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
My reaction would be "If you're that desperate to work remotely, why didn't you apply to jobs there, and am I going to lose you the moment someone there makes you an awful-but-better-than-half-...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
stay on site for some time, then have a trial remotely, with half the salary
If you are ok with working on site for some time, by all means, do it. Gain experience, show your skills and build ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
Unless your managers and HR people are the actual owners of the company then they don't care about your salary. Offering to take a pay cut to get a benefit isn't going to sway them because it's not as ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
The other thing to consider that I don't think has been mentioned yet, is that in many professions, new members of a team or business are usually mentored by a more experienced colleague, particularly ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
You can only make such agreements if it's OK for you to just quit if you don't get what you wanted. It will be next to impossible to get a contract where the arrangement you describe will actually be ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
When negotiating you need to understand what the other party wants and offer them that or something as close as possible. For the kind of company you've described, the truth is that the "salary ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
Honesty is the best policy.
IMHO, what you should do is a bit of research:
what is your skillset cost on the open market, add to that 20-40%, depending on amount of ongoing development (this is ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
It’s simple: people think that something is worth as much as it costs them. You offer working for half price, so you are only worth half price. You must think so, or you wouldn’t have offered it.
That’...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
Let's call a spade a spade. You're asking us how you can benefit as an opportunist without being recognized as an opportunist.
If you wait six months to a year after this colleague leaves to ask for ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
This is... irrational. The same with interviewing for a job that's being advertised as not remote, and believing that you can somehow change the employer's mind with no leverage.
Realistically, this ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
TL;DR - You are entirely within your rights to ask. I wouldn't be hopeful of it going your way
From your previous question, I understand you are fresh out of college and have little experience in the ...
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Trading remote work for salary reduction
It's a slippery slope to agree to work on site for a while and then have a "trial" remote work ( the pay really doesn't matter ). Unless you have very strong foolproof language written into ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
I'd only like to move if it's clear that there's no opportunity for progression in my current company.
Then you should start a conversation about your career progression. That should already be part ...
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What strategies can I employ to leverage a co-worker leaving (which increases my value) into a better position/salary for myself?
A few observations:
Whenever an organization goes from two people doing X to one person doing X it is a potential tipping point. They can decide that they need to find another person (via hiring or ...
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How do I contract a remote work arrangement?
Remote is a significant hassle for companies, for reasons ranging from security, to finance (paying across borders is messy), to " we think people collaborate better in person than via telecon&...
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negotiated job offer and am I being ghosted now?
The appropriate thing to do right now is a lost art in these days of text messages and email.
Pick up your telephone, and call the hiring manager or human resources. Inform them that you're concerned ...
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negotiated job offer and am I being ghosted now?
You have mentioned that it took six weeks to finish the interview because the leadership is so busy.
It seems reasonable to expect the process of counter offer to take weeks as well. It is also ...
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