I had a preliminary phone screening with a recruiter who asked my salary range. I tried to ask for their budget because i didn’t have the full position details, but they didn’t provide and asked again the range I was hoping for. I did end up responding, and secured an interview within the next couple of weeks. If all goes well will there be room for negotiations if I get an offer?

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Yes there’s always room to negotiate. “Originally I had asked for $X, but after learning more about the breadth of the role and seeing where my experience can add value to the company, I’d really like to get closer to $Y.”

It’s hard but next time really try to avoid answering that question until you get a salary range from them first. I went through something similar last year and held my ground until the recruiter shared the range. Turns out the range was higher than I’d guessed for that company. Made me feel more confident asking for what I wanted and was worth. Good luck!!

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this is such a dumb game- "Who ever blinks first looses" is just a stupid and outdated. In today's world employees are able to discuss comp amongst themselves, and online. Companies don't pay random amounts to different people for the same job because they did or didn't ask. We pay to keep comp equitable and within the budgeted range at OUR company which may or may not be the same at another company. What the recruiter heard was "cool, I can move forward because this candidate's expectations are within the budgeted range". Even if you asked for less than what the job pays, that doesn't mean you'll receive a low offer. Your offer is based on your actual experience, and the value you'll provide to he company based on that experience- not what you want simply because that's what you want (participation award generation thinking) The job pays what the job pays. We pay all candidates with similar experience similarly. The tall and the short and green and the purple- we don't pay some more because of their bad ass negotiations skills- cuz guess what that does? Exacerbates pay equity issues internally.

PS- if you tell me one thing when I ask the question in our initial call and suddenly get stupid greedy on the backend- you've lost me as an advocate and I may recommend pulling the offer all together and give the offer to the candidate that worked in good faith from the start.

I’ve heard way way too many stories about pay inequity based on negotiations to believe that. That’s a fact. Good on your company for having pay equity standards but there are states that have laws requiring recruiters to disclose pay range after the first interview because most companies haven’t had those standards historically. If this weren’t an issue there wouldn’t be an entire fishbowl dedicated to salary negotiations.

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