re: Job interview question

Find out what market value is and add $10k-$20k to that. That's what I did with my new position and it served me well. Screened out many, many underpaid jobs that way.

1. Answer that you'll be happy with whatever they are prepared to pay and are ready to begin work immediately.
2. You can handle 6 months of just about anything
3. Start looking (or don't stop looking) while employed.
4. It's always easier to find a job when you already have one.
5. If their pay isn't that good, so what? You've gained experience you didn't have.
6. Bust your arse for them from the get go.
7. Good luck

Bout tree fiddy PER HOUR

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I love how they want him to negotiate against himself.

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Never bid against yourself. Never.

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If they allot $85K but ask you first and you're foolish enough to say $75K... well....You just earned the HR Manager a raise for reducing salary costs...

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He's not getting paid that much right after college. Yeah, don't low ball when you've been in your field for 3 plus years.

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That’s some shitty advice

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huh bruh!!!

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Find out the market average for the job and then just put 3K lower than it is. Just for starting jobs though.

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The market average better be a shite load higher than the value of a new grad...a whole lot higher than 3k. If you are making 3k more than a new grad at the midpoint of a career, you done messed up.

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Response something like I realize what a great opportunity it would be to work for a company like yours and understand y’all offer competitive salary and benefits. I look forward to working for an organization like this that respects work and family environment...

Throw it back on them...

I recruited for my large Corp oil company and we never never brought up salary ...but did discuss benefits like vacation..medical..bonus..stock options etc...

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The market average better be a shite load higher than the value of a new grad...a whole lot higher than 3k. If you are making 3k more than a new grad at the midpoint of a career, you done messed up.

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Reminds me of my first job out of grad school. I was hired at a large CPA firm, not big 4 but a large regional firm. The first couple of days we had orientation. They brought all the new hires, Tax Dept and Audit Dept, into the big meeting room. One of the people talking to us was over HR and Operations. She told us that every single person starting out fresh from school was making the exact same salary and benefits. They did market studies annually, and the firm managers decided on a number. It didn't matter what school(s) you went to, what your GPA was, or your extracurricular activities. If you were offered an entry level job, they were going to view them all the same.

There were certain milestones needed for promotion, like so many years experience, passing your CPA exam, etc. I think it was after 1 year you were promoted to Senior Accountant instead of Staff if you basically were a warm body and showed up to work. Passing the exam and a few years of experience would get you to a Manager. From there it went on up to Sr Manager then Partner. There were obviously pay scales at each position, and talking about your pay was discouraged, and said you could be terminated if they found out.

Well I was good friends with a couple of the guys I started with. After a year when we got raises, we realized after a long few days out of town and drinking that we all got the same raise. We never talked about it with anyone else. No big deal, we all were paid fairly well for what we were doing. Fast forward to that year's new hires in the Fall, and one of them let it slip what their offer was. I guess he assumed after they got their orientation talk that all of them were making the same that he would ask around some of the folks that had been there a few years what they were making. He wasn't the brightest bulb. I heard it through office gossip, and some folks that had been there 2-3 years were livid that they were making only a few hundred more a year than new hires. I guess they were the ones that didn't get the larger raises. A couple of them left on their own within a few months. Some were told to start looking for a new job. Some were let go immediately, along with the new guy that opened his big mouth.