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The salary negotiation script that tripped me up for 4 months
I spent four months trying to follow all the popular advice about letting the other side name a number first. Every recruiter I talked to in Phoenix would just go silent on the phone and I kept caving and spitting out my current pay. Turns out the real problem wasn't my timing, it was that I never practiced saying the actual number out loud until I ran through it with a friend in my kitchen. After one 20 minute mock call where he kept pushing back, I finally got comfortable with my salary range and closed at 12% more than my first real offer. Has anyone else found that the standard scripts fall apart when the person on the other line is just really good at waiting?
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viola_cooper6223d ago
Did you find that the silence got way easier to handle once you'd already said the number out loud a bunch of times at home? I had the same thing happen (my roommate played the tough recruiter, bad cop energy and all) and after that the real silence didn't scare me anymore.
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