re: Millennials: Not Negotiating Your First Job Offer Will Cost You (up to $0.5M)

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If you assume that all recent grads are entirely fungible and indistinguishable. But that's not right, either, or you wouldn't bother with searching resumes and interviewing. The advice to millenials in this thread boils down to "always accept their first offer, no matter what!" That is literally the worst way to negotiate anything. Like I said, things are different if you've been unemployed for six months after graduation before you finally get your first offer, and I release that's a reality for some people. But for others- why lie down so easy?

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So like I and others have said in this thread your ability to negotiate a salary straight out of school with a company that hires a lot of undergrads is very small. Big 4, Large Banks, Big oil, large engineering companies, etc. all by and large set standard starting salaries across the board.

If you got to work with a small company or some mom and pop, then you might in fact have some ability to negotiate.