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How to negotiate your salary when it's your first job

How to negotiate your salary when it's your first job

From the course: Negotiating Your Job Offer

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How to negotiate your salary when it's your first job

- Many people have probably told you how hard it can be to find a great job but what about negotiating for a good salary when you don't have a lot of experience? Young professionals and recent college grads are up against a unique set of challenges that require a unique set of solutions. The nature of being a first time job seeker means you have little to no formal job experience to negotiate with. You face high unemployment and underemployment rates where people are more qualified than the jobs they have. You're also entering into the negotiation process with an unprecedented amount of student loan debt. Many early career professionals have shared with me that these factors have created a lot of fear and anxiety when it comes to negotiating their fist job offer. So what can you do about this? The most common question I receive from first time job seekers is how to respond to the question, what are you looking to make? As with all job seekers, research is extremely important but it's…

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