How to negotiate a higher salary upon a job offer.

ironlady2022

No they haven't. Rally frustrating, just called and left message and followed up with email. Bet I've been forgotten about and not got it

LadyMissA

mayling03 wrote: »

No they haven't. Rally frustrating, just called and left message and followed up with email. Bet I've been forgotten about and not got it

Oh so its not a 100% done deal

No one will call to tell you haven't got it. I had to chase up a job when I was told 'we will let you know tomorrow' and 3 days later no reply so sent another email and the woman had gone on holiday!

ironlady2022

I never said it was a done deal in my post. I just wanted to prepare myself. They said they will call either way. But I agree with you, candidates who have got it sure will be priority on the call list.

ironlady2022

Update: Just got call and it's good and bad news. Good news is I'm in the last 2 for 2 jobs BUT the bad news is their head office in America have still to give the greenlight on the budget for the 2 positions as they are having a recruitment freeze, something to do with headcount. This is sooooooooooooo frustrating. It's a waiting game now, he will update me in 2 weeks.

ironlady2022

I guess it's even harder to negotiate for the upper salary now.

bristol_pilot

If the OP had no experience, I would say there is little chance of negotiating salary for a grad position. However, with 3 years experience it is worth a try.

By the way, what they do at my place if a grad negotiates a higher starting salary is knock the increase off the rise they would have got after the first or second year. So if you start off getting an extra £1k or £2k, don't think you will necessarily remain ahead of the others for more than the first year or so.

ironlady2022

bristol_pilot wrote: »

If the OP had no experience, I would say there is little chance of negotiating salary for a grad position. However, with 3 years experience it is worth a try.

By the way, what they do at my place if a grad negotiates a higher starting salary is knock the increase off the rise they would have got after the first or second year. So if you start off getting an extra £1k or £2k, don't think you will necessarily remain ahead of the others for more than the first year or so.

Agree with you here, I have 3 years post grad experience which they would have to spend money on for training for a fresh graduate. I have multiple language skills which is useful as they operate in over 300 locations around the world and also I have international work experience hence I say I am in a position to bargain.

Regarding what they do at your place, wow that is unbelieveable! This firm however is very keen on developing its workers.

LadyMissA

mayling03 wrote: »

Update: Just got call and it's good and bad news. Good news is I'm in the last 2 for 2 jobs BUT the bad news is their head office in America have still to give the greenlight on the budget for the 2 positions as they are having a recruitment freeze, something to do with headcount. This is sooooooooooooo frustrating. It's a waiting game now, he will update me in 2 weeks.

so it was a bit of a goose chase really - sorry to hear that

an9i77

OP its worth bearing in mind that buying salaries can rise quite quickly, experienced buyers can expect to be on around 35k so you will probably not stay near your starting salary for that long. Sorry to hear about the spanner in the works, that must be very frustrating. So they are basically waiting on some head honcho to give it the green light, and if no one pulls the plug you are definitely in? Fingers crossed it will be ok - come back and let us know!

claire16c

an9i77 wrote: »

OP its worth bearing in mind that buying salaries can rise quite quickly, experienced buyers can expect to be on around 35k so you will probably not stay near your starting salary for that long. Sorry to hear about the spanner in the works, that must be very frustrating. So they are basically waiting on some head honcho to give it the green light, and if no one pulls the plug you are definitely in? Fingers crossed it will be ok - come back and let us know!

I used to work in buying and unfortunately you can expect to stay on a low salary for a long time because its such a competitive job with people willing to do it for less. Most people dont get to buyer level for around 6 years.

You have to do the buyers admin assistant/trainee buyer/trainee assistant buyer level first.

Then after about a year or 18 months you hopefully get promoted to Assistant buyer.

You do that for about 18 months or 2 years before hopefully getting promoted to Assistant buyer level 2/Senior Assistant buyer.

Then after a year or 18 months of that, its then assistant buyer level 3/Junior Buyer.

Another year or two and then you might be a buyer lol

But, I do know some ABs on 30k plus , the problem is finding the few companies who pay that much. But if you get up to buying manager level you can be on 50-100k so it could be worth it in the end!