Tips for Negotiating Your Salary During a Job Interview
Talking about your salary expectations during job interviews can be a cold sweat. Well prepared, it will be easier for you to land the job of your dreams and negotiate the salary. We give you pro tips to know how to say with finesse how much you are worth.
Prepare Your Arguments
You can’t just mention a figure out of the blues when negotiating your salary. You have to find out about the salary range offered by the company for the type of position you are applying for and for your level of training.
A phone call to a colleague from the company in question, a glance at the scales that appear here and there in the press or on the websites of recruitment firms will help you clarify what you are worth in the job market. This preparation is essential to score points with recruiters to negotiate your salary. It is proof that you have mastered the market, taken the time to learn about the company, and know your value.
Think About What You Want to Achieve
For a job, recruiters
speak in annual gross compensation. You must speak the same language as them to facilitate exchanges. Think upstream about the desired gross annual salary, then possibly expand with the variable salary (bonus, bonus) and benefits in kind (company car, telephone, teleworking, etc.). Ultimately, you must be able to offer a salary package to the recruiter.
Ask for Less to Be Sure You Get the Job?
During a job interview, should you ask for less pay to be sure of getting the job? No more! The recruiter will immediately wonder why you are devaluing yourself and will think that there is a problem in your path. Worse yet … He can accept, and you will drop the market prices. You have qualities, you have skills. You must be paid up to them for the intended job.
Inflate Their Old Salary
This is bogus advice that comes up often. Today, recruiters have access to all your information. The telephone, the network, the internet … it’s very easy to find out about you and see if you have fooled them.
And the risks are greater than you might think. Again, information is circulating. A lie from a recruiter can fry you with other recruiters. To ask for a larger income, it is better to explain that your former remuneration had been fixed on older criteria or that your responsibilities were not the same.
