How to Negotiate Salary When Landing a New Job
It’s good if you have found a new job and has passed the stages of submitting resume, telephone screenings, and personal interviews successfully. Now you need to complete the fundamental task of negotiating your salary. The process is very crucial and requires good planning. You have to balance what you want versus what you think the employer will pay. Neither asks too much or too little. Ask too much and the job offer may be rescinded. Ask for too little and lose out and feel undervalued for the rest of your tenure with that employer. Remember that any future raises are usually a percentage of your starting salary.
Here are some pointers to complete your salary negotiation and close the deal:
Instructions
Step 1
Be a sharp negotiator.
It is a big mistake to just accept whatever offer is made and expect fix it later once you have shown your work prowess. Instead of recognizing how valuable you are and increasing your salary, your employer will probably just congratulate themselves for getting a great deal on a new hire.
Step 2
Carefully consider first offer and reject it.
Most employers do not expect that you will accept initial offers. Make a counter offer even if the first salary offer is close to what you were expecting. But always present it in friendly negotiation terms. Do not make ultimatums or demands unless you have other offers and are prepared leave without the new job. If the monetary amount is fixed, you could negotiate other types of compensation such as flex time, more vacation time, and working from home or performance bonuses. Read the rest of this entry
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Six Easy Ways To Adjust at a New Job
While starting a new job, everybody feels excitement as well as nervousness. As a new employee, everybody has to deal with certain challenges. But you can make yourself comfortable by keeping in mind the following guidelines.
1. Take Notes
It can be a really good idea, to carry a notebook with yourself on your first day at work. This will help you to refer to your notes, whenever you forget something; hence making you feel more self-assured and boosting your confidence.
2. Ask Questions
Don’t feel shy to ask questions, if you are unable to understand something. This will show your interest in the job as well as your enthusiasm to learn new things.
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How To Give A Proper Resignation?
Got a new job and want to say bye bye to the old one? Here are some quick tips to help you out so that you make a smooth exit.
- Give a notice in advance. Most people give 2 to 4 weeks notice, depending on their level of responsibility.
- Keep your pending projects, upcoming meetings and deadlines in mind. Plan about how you’ll wrap things up during your final weeks.
- Formulate your resignation letter. State that you are "resigning effective month/day/year in order to take another position." Also, try to avoid including any more details about the new opportunity in the letter.
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How to Get Your Job Search Moving Again?
Finding a new job becomes very frustrating at times. You try to make your resume and cover letter as attractive as possible but the outcome is not at all impressive. This is the stage when an individual gets unmotivated to make further effort or attempt. In order to drive back this motivation, a person needs to remember few points.
Keep In Mind The Reason For Finding The Job
You usually overlook the main reason for finding the job. You are so frustrated that it seems difficult to get the same excitement back that was there initially.
Therefore, to get back the same excitement, recall the negative points about your current job. Recall those duties and responsibilities that are not present in your current job. Bring to mind those interests of yours that you wish to have in your new job. Don’t you desire a job that provides you flexible work timings so that you are able to spend enough time with your family?
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How to Look for a New Job
If you recently got tired of your boring 9 to 5 routine work and want a change, then it’s about time that you start looking for a new job.
Looking for a new job is not an easy task as it seems. One has to prepare fully before starting a new job hunt. It demands full dedication of your time and efforts along with a planned strategy about what to do and what not to do. Here are some important things you must in mind while looking for a new job.
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Some Good Ways To Quit Your Job
1. Resign in Person
It is better to offer both an oral and a written resignation. Write a resignation letter that comprises of the following information:
- Your purpose of imparting
- The date when you are resigning
- The date you prefer to impart
- Sign the letter
2. Be Honest, But Be Tactful as As Well.
Although you may be tempted to lay it down dense, it is better to refrain from telling the truth about why you are imparting.
3. Offer to Stay Until They Find Your Replacement
Try to work on a transition plan with your boss to make sure that a proper knowledge transfer is performed. Act responsible to to tie up loose ends, and work together with your boss to assign responsibilities to others.
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How to Deal with a Difficult Boss?
No one is perfect, whether he is an employee or a boss, but a difficult boss can be very difficult to handle. No doubt, it is a challenge for anyone but don’t panic, there are ways to handle the situation. It is possible that your boss may be a racist, sexist, a bully or he likes to play favorite. If you face any of the problems mentioned, or more, try the following tips.
1. Analyze your Actions
Analyze your work honestly. Have you been slacking? Or has your job performance declined with the entrance of the dreadful boss into the picture? If you have, then try to get back on the track and work well on the projects at hand, and see if there are any changes in the boss’s behavior.
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What Should You Do After Being Fired From Job
Even a best individual can lose its job, unfortunately. It can happen even when the fault is there in the boss. You and your supervisors may not have any similarity in personalities. You and management might differ in approach about the job. You could have simply turned up. This usually occurs. You are not the only one to face this.
A research conducted on this phenomenon has shown that almost 250,000 workers are fired from their job illegitimately. In contrast to this the justified removals are unnoticeable. If you ignore all the circumstances of your removal from the job, other things are more considerable like what to do? And where to go from here?
After Getting Fired:
First thing you should not do and i.e. never blame yourself. As it is mentioned earlier that getting fired can happen to the best member of staff. Don’t reside on it. Try to focus yourself on the way forward. Think about the stuff like what you are going to do next and how you are going to get another job. The stigma of being fired has added to your job search, but you should know how to tackle that. Be wise, positive and have realistic approach while addressing this issue.
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