for those of you who've seen this video on my instagram page you know I love talking about
negotiation like that's a topic that is close to my heart why not talk about here on youtube
so this is a reel that i actually recorded and it went vital it currently has 7.5 million
views and there are two types of people who are commenting on the sale one is people who are
saying thank you so much this is so helpful and the other are the recruiters sadly i've
managed to get attention of all the recruiters on instagram and it's actually not good for me
because i got their attention for the wrong reasons because some of them are really mad at me
for suggesting to not share the salary when the recruiter asks they're not happy they're like
we're not going to talk to you if you don't give a salary if you don't tell us what your
expectation is that's a whole different topic but in today's video i'm just going to tell you like
three things my goal is to tell you three mistakes that you should not be making while negotiation
this is definitely going to be a series so expect a lot more videos on this topic because
as i said i am super passionate about this topic in 201 2021 i started volunteering my time to help
specifically women of color in tech negotiate job offers and i have helped negotiate over 600 000
dollars in incremental salaries and this is august i know i don't know when you're going to be seeing
this video but currently today is august 7th 2021 so i am pretty close and my goal is to reach 1
million by the end of 2021 so i'm pretty close to reaching that goal i think i'm going to achieve it
hopefully maybe by the time you are watching this i've already reached 1 million again like just
emphasizing that this is a topic that is close to my heart i love talking about it because there's
a lot of data points on it too but for the sake of this conversation i'm not gonna mention those
data points i'll do that in another video in my opinion women specifically and people of color
do not negotiate job offers and my goal is to talk about it on my social media as much as i can
because i want people to think that believe that it's okay to negotiate their job offers
and that's exactly my number one mistake that i'm going to highlight let's jump into the three
mistakes that you shouldn't be making when negotiating job offers but before we do that
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comment box below let's jump right into it there are three mistakes that you should not be making
when negotiating job offers number one and that's the biggest one honestly i a lot of people make
that mistake that's the biggest mistake that you could make is not negotiate at all
listen me listen to me hear me out a lot of people when they get the job offers they are negotiating
their job offers so when companies are preparing those offers those first offers those packages
they are expecting you to negotiate so when you accept that job offer without negotiation
guess what you're just leaving money on the table exactly please please please please negotiate
negotiate because you don't know if you don't negotiate you are never gonna know if you could
have gotten more money so this is the number one mistake that people make is not negotiate
so please avoid that mistake if you got a job offer please negotiate your job offer number two
not doing the market research not giving the data points when you're asking for the additional
salary increase or stock equity increase or whatever it is that you're going after you're not
doing the market research and you're not giving your recruiter or whoever you're working with
the data points that prove that this is the fair market value for the skills that you bring to
the table i have a few recommendations for tech specifically and they are more focused on the us
i would love to know if you have any suggestions for any of the international countries or for
non-tech roles if you have any suggestions for websites for doing the market research
but for tech my number one go-to website evaluating a job offer or understanding
the market value for the skills that i bring to the table given my experience is levels dot fyi
yes i'm gonna say it again levels dot fyi this is one of the best tools
or websites that you can find on market on for doing your market research on job offers
the second tool and i know like i i feel like we need to spend a lot more time on level.fi
maybe i'll do another another another session and where we can walk through how to look up salaries
what is the strategy that you should be using let's say if your company is not on levels.fyi
or your role is not a levels.fyi how should you go about it how should you look up the salaries so
maybe i'll do another video where i'll over i'll do the screen recording and i'll walk you through
like how to do the market research using levels.fi the second website that i would not a website
it's a app it's a called blind so blind recently introduced their job their salary database where
people have been logging their total compensation in addition to that it's an anonymous community
where let's say if you have a job offer and you don't feel comfortable talking to people around
you or people you know you can always go there and talk to somebody share your offer and get feedback
from people who are already working in those roles and at those companies so blind i'll list it here
so level drive by and blind those are the two one of my favorite for tech research glass drawer i'm
gonna talk about it in a different video um i'll probably do a tech tool the salary tool video uh
glass door i'm not it's not my favorite it's not on my top list uh for several reasons the main one
being is that the salaries are low ball numbers those are i don't even want to call it like the
lower bond because those are like pretty low i've been in various roles and various companies
and i can tell you just from my packages that i've received but the same role same company same level
i see on glassdoor it's not the same so i will not i will not put a lot of money on glassdoor
salaries it is great for interview prep um i love that's how i uh that's how i understand like what
kind of type of questions they're gonna ask is using the glossary so that's my number two tip
my number three tip is let's say you were in the job market and you have been interviewing for
multiple companies the number three mistake that you're making is not aligning the schedule
of your interviews and your job offers because the most powerful tool you can have is a data
point and when that data point is another job offer your negotiation is becomes more powerful
the ball becomes the ball is in your court because now you have multiple offers
so if you are interviewing at multiple companies and not coordinating your schedules
not coordinating your interview not coordinating your job offers you're actually doing a disfavor
to yourself because you can actually use those additional offers to negotiate another offer
make sure if you are in the job market make sure you're doing that so that way you have a lot more
leverage when it comes down to negotiating an offer three summarizing three things that we
discussed the mistakes that you should avoid number one is always negotiate your job offers
number two is do the market research get those data points in and number three is align your
uh all your interviews if you're interviewing multiple companies with that those are my three
big mistakes that i want to share with you to avoid in your future job search um negotiation uh
process so if you have any other tips that or mistakes that you think that should people
should be avoiding for negotiation let me know in comments i'm sure like other people will
read those comments and find it find it beneficial and i love to know like what is your favorite tip
when it comes to negotiation what has worked for you in the past so with that thank you so
much for watching subscribe to my channel if you want to hear more on negotiation
and my instagram is full of negotiation tips like i'm just gonna show you here like these are the
tons of dms i received i received like on daily basis where people are telling me that they
use the tips that i've shared um and they have negotiated and i pick i make zero dollars from
it like honestly like i am just doing it because i want to share the knowledge with that thank you so
much for watching i hope you have a beautiful day and i'll see you in the next video bye