I015 Interview Preparation: What are your salary expectations?

Interview Preparation: What are your salary expectations? 

The Interviewer: 

He wants to elicit 

- Will you fit in the budget for Job?

- Internal grade to fit you in.

- Are your expectations too low or too high.

-- Low expectations may be construed as low skills and high expectation as high skills.

The Applicant:

- Negotiate or dictate from strength.

- Know your worth.

-- Speak to people in industry and find out what kind of salary others with similar skills are earning.

-- Use salary websites to know salary offered for such skills.

- Ask based on your situation and negotiation power.

-- If you have a happy current job – you can aim higher.

-- If you have an unhappy current job – aiming higher may have risk of losing this opportunity.

-- If you don’t have a current job – you may ask as per industry standard.

- Never quote less than industry standard - as they may consider it as low skill.