You don’t negotiate your salary
The first thing that you have to do at a job interview is to negotiate your salary. Your prospective employers should know exactly what you want so they can hire you. If you don’t do this from the beginning, it may be too late in the long run.
“I had a job I hated early in my career and I was so thrilled for the life raft that I didn’t even negotiate my salary when I got a new offer. Soon I realized I was one of the lowest paid reporters at that job, despite having far more experience than many of my colleagues. I tried to negotiate later but it was too late. My employer didn’t give bumps of more than a few percentage points a year and I was probably getting paid 20 to 30 percent less than my peers,” says Mandi Woodruff, executive editor of MagnifyMoney.com.
“Even after I was promoted, I still didn’t get a big bump since I was starting off from such a low benchmark. I realized the only way to move up to a reasonable pay grade was to eventually leave that job and negotiate a higher salary somewhere else. I negotiated my tail off and wound up making 30% more,” he added.
