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What is your current salary?
Your current salary, your interest in the job, your negotiation ability and willingness to negotiate, employer’s interest in hiring impacts your proposed salary. Therefore it is important to push back answering this question. This question may be asked early or late in the interview. If it is very early in the interview, then you know it is to check if you can be hired within the budget. If it is late in the interview than interviewer is interested to make an offer based on current salary.
Do's
• Focus on the new job and learning
• Delay this question till the offer is made
• It is confidential. Ask why do you need to know
• Reverse the question and ask for salary grades
Don'ts
• Avoid sharing till offer is made
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• Tell us your salary history
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Negotiation is an important life skill
We negotiate most of our waking hours. We negotiate with our team members, colleagues, bosses and vendors at work, with our kids, spouse and parents at home. We negotiate during buying or selling of an asset e.g. house, car and also conflict resolution and during salary negotiations. Negotiation is an important life skill and it contributes to our success.
If we do not negotiate well or don’t negotiate at all then there is a big chance that we are going to leave money on the table, which could have been ours. We often don’t negotiate because we feel it is inappropriate or feel uncomfortable and fear it.
“You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.” Chester Karrass
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