Salary Negotiation Tips This Is the Job Thou Coveteth

Salary Negotiation Tips This Is the Job Thou CovetethSalary Negotiation Tips This Is the Job Thou CovetethIn some types of negotiations, purchasing a car for instance, playing it cool pays off. Not in a salary negotiation.The Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation (Part 7) Salary expert Jack Chapman offers 10 lessons on salary negotiation in the vein of the Ten Commandments.Dont play it cool.Most people have the erroneous assumption that in job bewerberinterviews and negotiations they should leid appear too eager. I dont want to look desperate, they say. In some types of negotiations, purchasing a car for instance, playing it cool pays off. Showing how much you really want those wheels costs you some negotiating leverage.In a job search, however, people hire enthusiasm over cool.Does it motivate an employer to offer you less if he knows that youre eager to take the job? It could, but mostly it doesnt. The fact that an employer knows that you really want a job can even make him increa se the offer in hopes of attracting and retaining such enthusiastic help.Similarly, knowing an employer is sold on you gives you leverage. Its important that your attitude is well matched to your natural personality and that it is expressed in a manner consistent with that personality.Some people are lovable. Some people are funny. Some are quiet as a mouse. Any type can be just the right style for a given hiring-decision maker. Hiring is a haphazard, prejudiced, imprecise art - certainly not a science. Hardly anyone is actually trained in how to do it.This means that emotions will play a big part in getting hired and getting paid well.This short, real-life story illustrates the point Bret noticed three telltale signs his currency ran high with the hiring-decision maker. He spoke as if Bret was already a part of the company he returned a couple of times in the interview to talk about their common alma mater he said that the combination of graphics and teaching was rare and a great fit. Bret joined in and shared how excited he was about the fit, too. Then he used the Whats the best you can do? strategy to capitalize on that personal chemistry and pushed the hiring-decision maker another $4,800 to the top of his range.Read other installments in this seriesPart 1 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Speak Too SoonPart 2 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Regret Salary DisclosurePart 3 Salary Negotiation Tips Let the Employer Make the First Salary OfferPart 4 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not AgreePart 5 Salary Negotiation Tips Know How Much Money Youre WorthPart 6 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Covet Thine Own Benefits and PerksPart 7 Salary Negotiation Tips This Is the Job Thou CovetethPart 8 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Worry about Earthly EconomyPart 9 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Thy Salary in VainPart 10 Salary Negotiation Tips Honor Thy Wealth and Prosperity