Your First Offer, and the Conversation About It · Course check

Course check

3 questions. Get them all right and the Asked Once seal is yours. Get one wrong and you can reread and try again — as many times as you like, and nothing is recorded against you.

1. What is usually most movable at entry level?

   The base salary figureStart date, training budget, review timing and teamThe job title

2. What should you bring to the conversation?

   A single figure you would be happy withA range and a reason, from published bands and comparable rolesA competing offer, real or otherwise

3. How should the request be made?

   Once, in writing, after accepting the role warmlyVerbally, and repeated until it is answeredThrough a third party who can push harder