Salary Negotiation Tips for Professionals

Designed for individuals making $50,000+ a year, this book draws upon the rich career counselling methods and cases of success associated with leading career professionals. The book reveals a wealth of strategies and tips on how to effectively negotiate a compensation package that truly reflects one's value in today's job market. Outlines numerous salary mistakes job seekers make, as well as offers a quiz to assess one's salary negotiating skills. This well-focused book shows how to: determine your market value; respond to questions about salary history or requirements; postpone salary discussions until the appropriate time; persuade an employer to show his hand first; respond to an offer with a powerful 30-second pause; negotiate important benefits and perks; handle objections to your salary request; request time to consider an offer; ask for a raise and get a promotion. This book may well become your most trusted resource for talking money to power. Whatever you do, make sure you review this book before responding to a request for salary information, going to a job interview, discussing compensation, or accepting a job offer.