Recently I asked on of my subordinates to send me and updated excel sheet of our target companies… He said he would send it across to me ASAP…
10 minutes pass and when I hit the F9 key on my keyboard there is lo-and-behold the report there…
I opened the mail and this is how it looked…
A friend recently spoke to me about whether to accept a particular offer or not… I helped him out and in the process realized that there would be lot of people out there who would need help on how to negotiate the salary…
Take some time always to consider the salary offer. Ask for the least of 24 to 48 hours. Silence is the golden - or it could become so - when you just let it hang for a while following the initial offer - people tend to fill in those voids which in turn fills up your kitty in the process too. Do not rush to fill a quiet void. Let the other person speak.
Weigh any of the offer against a company’s expectations of you in a position rather than your own needs. A company has put itself on line with its offer. Rest assured they do have a cap, but you might have some of the wiggle room (please understand that it’s a wiggle room not a hall - range will be 5-10%) based upon how much value a company perceives you could bring them.
You spin. You put things in the best possible light. You fail to mention those four hours you spent devoted to checking out mail from your friends marked ‘careful’ or ‘open when alone’, those two hours you slipped out to have an extended lunch with your friends (I can’t believe they schedule these lunch timings - how do you know when you will be hungry…), and that 1 hour period every day after lunch when you sit at your desk in a massive food coma. You don’t mention these things, because they call-in to question your job performance. You highlight the good stuff that you have done, or you highlight the reasons why you haven’t produced more good stuff - i.e. you felt alien presence in the room where you were working on the papers or you were thinking about why your co-worker is never at her desk…
Ankit Desai