It’s unfortunate, but it’s a reality: not every salary and benefits negotiation will end with you getting everything you ask for. It may be that you’re in an extremely competitive marketplace and your potential new employer knows they have the advantage. And maybe your resume is not good enough. After all, the employer, first of all, looks at the resume from which it draws conclusions on how qualified you are. Sometimes it's not easy to make a good resume yourself, so the Resume Writing Lab will help you. Or it may be that your new employer just does not have it in their budget to offer you a higher wage. Read more about it here. Either way, they are saying no to what you’re asking for and you know they’re sticking to it.

Not the best news, certainly, but you’ve done your homework and part of your preparation for the negotiation was to come with a Plan B. So, if your new employer won’t budge on raising your compensation, then move on to suggesting supplementing your benefits and side perks in place of an increase in salary.

Great strategy, except no. Your employer won’t okay an increase in salary and now your boss won’t accept a supplement to your benefits and/or side perks. Well, this is where you have to make a difficult decision. And this is why in preparing for the negotiation, you must also prepare a Plan C. If your employer’s proposed salary is already at your minimum requirement, to begin with, and your boss won’t budge on increasing it, then in your mind, you have to know at what point you’re willing to walk away. Even though times are tough and finding employment is hard, you have to be honest with yourself and know what pay you’re willing to accept and then stick to this. Therefore, if you’re already at the borderline minimum requirement and there’s no immediate increase insight, you have to be brave enough to move on to Plan C. Plan C means calmly stating to your boss that unfortunately the offer does not meet your financial needs and then leaving the negotiation table and moving on to the next job opportunity (https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/8147-successful-job-search-strategies.html).

Conclusion

Although this last section ended on a somewhat somber note, hopefully, this guide proves both confidence-boosting and helpful. Yes, negotiating a higher salary when beginning a new job is not the easiest thing to do in the world. But, here’s the thing, if you prepare for it – if you prepare your arguments, do your research and understand how to act during the negotiation itself – you have a very real possibility of getting what you ask for. In the end, just remember this – you’re the talent that your new boss has been searching for. He wants to bring you in as a happy addition to the team. Convince your boss that the talent you bring to the company deserves a higher pay and he’ll be very hard-pressed to say no.