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Summary: Hands down the best book you can buy for interviewing
Review: Ever wonder if you made the best offer? Afraid friends, peers or subordinates are making more money than you? Sharpen your negotiating skills with proven tactics in this book. Hands down the best book on salary negotiation. Key point? Know your worth, stick to your guns, and be quiet!
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Summary: If you want a bigger paycheck, read this book!
Review: I owe my latest payday to Jack Chapman's negotiating strategies. My newest employer aimed pretty low for their first offer, lower than what I had made at my last job, considering all of the skills and experience I was bringing to the table. But by applying some of the techniques in the book, I was able to get 22% more money. I've never negotiated my salary before: I was just glad someone thought enough of my skills to make me an offer. Now, I know better.
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Summary: A Quick Read That's Well Worth the Time....
Review: I used Jack's book to negotiate a great compensation package for myself in the software industry. Although all the negotiation was handled through the in-house recruiter, much of Jack's advice still was applicable. Follow the golden rule, namely do NOT disclose your current salary! In particular I found his advice about waiting 30 seconds before responding to a prospective employer's first offer to REALLY work! A must read!
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Summary: Excellent guide to maximizing your compensation package!
Review: I'm a Career Counselor and coach with a number of years of expereince as an Executive Recruiter where I frequently helped my candidates negotiate their salary. This book gives some excellent guidelines on how to postpone salary talk and get the best compensation package possible. It covers such things as how to determine your fair market value for the particular position, industry, and location of your work, in relation to your past experience. It covers how to keep your offer intact, yet still negotiate for what you are worth. It teaches the power behind a few seconds of silence! I highly recommend this book to anyone who plans to change jobs, or wants to negotiate a better salary in their current position. You should read this book before you have your first interview!
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Summary: Excellent guide to maximizing your compensation package!
Review: I'm a Career Counselor and coach with a number of years of expereince as an Executive Recruiter where I frequently helped my candidates negotiate their salary. This book gives some excellent guidelines on how to postpone salary talk and get the best compensation package possible. It covers such things as how to determine your fair market value for the particular position, industry, and location of your work, in relation to your past experience. It covers how to keep your offer intact, yet still negotiate for what you are worth. It teaches the power behind a few seconds of silence! I highly recommend this book to anyone who plans to change jobs, or wants to negotiate a better salary in their current position. You should read this book before you have your first interview!
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Summary: If you are looking for a job, then you need this book.
Review: It's amazing what a book can do for you. Sometimes we assume that we can do anything just with our knowledge, then we claim ourselves why other get more money for the same job, lucky we say, but luck is when opportunity meets knowledge. This good book will increment your knowledge.
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Summary: Not just for the Americans!
Review: Jack Chapmans words can initially seem a little strong and overpowering, and at the start of the book I was a little dubious. However within reading the first few pages I identified with what he was saying and it felt like he was speaking to me on a one to one basis through his writing. By using the exercices in the book, it allowed me to build up the belief and confidence in myself and then enabled me to put together 'the weaponary' to walk tall into the negotiation, and use the phrases and actions that seemed too strong before. Jack doesnt claim to get you the best salary package in the world, just what you are worth, and more importantly, how to calculate what you are worth. Some concepts sound very American, but they are just as applicable in the UK, and probably anywhere else in world. Afer I read this book, and followed all the advice/tasks, I was not only able to achieve monetary gains, it taught me skills to allow me take a step back and change the way I was viewing myself and my career. The overall mantra of the book, find your worth, get your worth is still very valid (and proven by myself!). One thing for sure is I realise the value in looking after your career. I would highly recommened this book, the proof is in the pudding- it works!
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Summary: Great Reference
Review: Negotiating Your Salary is an excellent resource for both the job seeker and those looking to get a good raise. Author Jack Chapman emphasizes many key points most notably selling your value to the organization instead of whining and crying about a raise. The importance of letting the employer talk money first is stressed. Still another aspect of a satisfying job offer/raise is to research salaries in your field. A perspective employer may think very highly of you by making the effort to do good research.
In addition to presenting detailed information in an easy to read matter, Negotiating Your Salary offers many good research tools to perfect your craft at obtaining a worthwhile salary. This book is a definitely a valuable tool that will never get too stale and provides insight that will last a lifetime.
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Summary: Excellent Advice, Great Author!
Review: The advice in this book has assisted me in boosting my salary offering at least $5000.00 and it only took about two minutes of negotiations! Jack Chapman really hits the nail on the head with his advice and focuses your attention on how to price yourself fairly in the market and then NEGOTIATE FOR MORE!
It's true that a person works harder when they feel that they are valued more and in this world, value is most often judged by compensation. Mr. Chapman will teach you how to recognize and price ALL of your skills and then market them to the greatest effect to maximize your offer from your next employer. Keep in mind that these pieces of advice are not magic and you must always keep a cool head and use common sense when negotiating during an interview.
Study the field your going to interview for and do your research!
Jack was also extremely helpful on the phone and communicated personally with me by e-mail several times before my interview.
Buy this book and use it if you want to get paid what your worth and MORE!
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Summary: Pays for itself 1,000 times over
Review: This is a brief (approx. 170 pps), easy to read book from which job seekers of any profession can benefit. Helpful examples are given throughout the book of blunders and of success stories, so that readers can learn from each. I found only one significant weakness of the book, and that is that the advice given generally is more valuable for (i.e., more directly relevant to) people who are in sales or who work for companies that can put a dollar value on their worth and growth over time. This can be hard to do, however, if you (for example) are a scientist who works at a research university--when you publish a new research finding, you cannot easily put a dollar value on it's worth to the university. Chapman spends little time on applying his advice to a sufficiently diverse range of work settings. Nevertheless, this book has many valuable pieces of advice that will almost certainly strengthen your position as a job-seeker or raise-seeker, and I would recommend it to anyone in any profession.
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