From the course: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions

How to approach this question

From the course: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions

How to approach this question

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- What are your salary expectations? This is a question you'll get all too often. I'm Mike Derezin, vice president of LinkedIn Learning Solutions. I've hired many people in my career, and I'm going to walk you through a few tips so that you can master this question. The first tip, don't give a specific number. It's very tempting to give a number. Instead, you want to provide a range. You don't want to low ball, because that's going to obviously work against you. At the same token, if you go too high, you may freeze yourself out of this opportunity. So the second tip, come in and do some neutral research, and with that research, you want to come in and share that range. provide information such as this role, based on the research I've done, By putting that range on the table, it does a couple things: one, the employer then will have to base their comp at least on those numbers, because you've established what the competitive benchmarks are. Now, the next thing I want to advise you on is how do you actually get those ranges. Where do you go? There's multiple places to go on the internet. One that's very good is LinkedIn Salary Tool, because with all the data that LinkedIn has, we can provide very good information on a whole array of roles. As a matter of fact, we have information of over 1,000 roles, And last but not least, don't forget to bring up signing bonuses. That's often a way to bridge the gap at the end of a negotiation. So if you follow these three tips, you're going to be well on your way to mastering the question what are your salary expectations. what are your salary expectations. Good luck. (gentle music) Good luck. (gentle music)

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