On Monday we asked you to submit your questions about accepting a job offer, and from the excellent questions we received, we chose Claire’s. She asks, “ How do you ask if that’s the most that they will offer without offending them or sounding greedy? ” Salary talks are always one of the trickiest components of a job offer because the employer generally has the upper hand. By the time you get to salary negotiations, which might not occur until the second, third or fourth interview, you’ve probably divulged quite a bit of information. You have already been asked to give your salary history, your current income and your salary expectations. You don’t know what the company’s budget is, what they are willing to pay and what the previous employee’s salary was. Conventional wisdom says that you don’t bring up salary, the employer does, and it’s good advice to take. The reason is that you don’t want to suggest you’re so focused on the paycheck that the actual requirements of the job are of no interest to you. Plus, when a company knows that their salary offerings are low, they often bring it up early in the interview process because they don’t want to waste your time or theirs. It’s not a guarantee, but it happens more than you realize. As Claire asks, what do you do when a number has been put out there and you can live with it, but you’d like to know if there is more room for negotiation

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