Why people sometimes accept outrageous is because they themselves don't carry value. There is how valuable you are and they would be begging you to offer you reasonable pay.
Before negotiating your salary, know what they are paying you for.
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There is no way a company is going to discuss your salary first before discussing your job description to the best of my knowledge.
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Take for instance, one applies for a teaching job. What job description do you need to discuss apart from the fact that you would be teaching. Highest is the classes you would be teaching.
It is true that when you acquire good skills that can make you an asset to any organization, you hold the aces on salary negotiation. It is all about capacity building.
You have to consider how difficult it is to replace you when you are negotiating your salary. When you are hard to be found, you are bound to negotiate your salary higher.
Aunty please, l beg to differ. You can start bargaining for the salary if possible even before the interview. This would even let you know of you should go ahead with the interview
Many people in the Human Resource department are really clever. They want to get an idea about what you are expecting and this is why they expect you to tell them what amount of salary you want or expect!
Compulsorily, it is ideal to check the kind of workload that we have to perform in the company before you can accept the amount of money they are willing to pay.
For people that don't value their time, they would be willing to do a job at any rate. That is why I love the hourly payment system used in many countries. Monthly pay seems like a complete rip off.
For me time is very important to be taken into account in salary negotiations, when I get paid for once a month, and after reaching a month then I will ask for my salary. I don't care about the company's financial condition, because I'm only asking for my rights as long as I work well there. If I don't get paid, then there's no reason to stay around.
Lol true though, but it is very important you make sure you know exactly what they are paying you for, cause there are cases where the work load they would even give you in the end might be more than what you are paid for.
The workload is also important and is also relative to time. The higher workload you have, the more you should get paid. But some people shortchange themselves all because they are desperate.
Take for instance, a school that contracts you to teach from 8am to 2pm would surely have less workload than a school that you are teaching from 8am to 4pm. Time is a major factor alongside your skills level.
If you know your worth, you would definitely know how to effectively negotiate to your favour, though negotiation is a very good skill worthy of acquisition, then try to know what you are offering and make sure you will be adding value to the potential employer.
Any job that is taking up to 8 hours of your time is supposed to pay you an amount that you use to take care of yourself considering prevalent economic realities. That is because they have taken all your productive time.
Your salary should really compensate the time and skills you give to the company. It shouldn't be so unsatisfactory that you think you have wasted your time or your skills have not been seen.
Yes this is extremely important cause some employees can be very tricky. Most of them are usually not even honest about the whole thing. You did be surprised that after they employ you, they would give you more work than what they told you the first time.