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How To Use Personal Negotiation Skills To Improve Your Performance In Job Interviews.
There are few more stressful occurrences in your career than interviewing for a new job. Here are 6 key negotiation skills that you can apply to tip the scales to your advantage.
1. Be careful of how you respond to stress.
It is key that you realise how you respond in stressful situations so that you can ensure you prepare an approach that will guarantee you come across as composed, settled and confident.
2. Spend enough time on planning.
Most negotiation training workshops teach that the key to a positive negotiation result is the quality of the planning. The emphasis of your planning will differ marginally depending on whether you are interviewing for a new position within your current company or if you are chasing a completely new opportunity somewhere else.
Interviewing for a new oppportunity in your current company:
a. Make sure that you are in sync with the vision & the mission of the company.
b. Make a detailed list of the objectives that you have accomplished to show your skill to meet your targets.
c. Get character references or endorsements from colleagues (your present supervisor would probably be the best one) testifying to the abilities that are being looked for in the new position.
Important questions to ask:
a. Why is the position vacant?
b. How will success be gauged?
c. What assistance will I get to aid in the achievement of set objectives?
Interviewing for a new job in another company:
a. Make sure that you read up as much as possible about the new company including taking a look at what is said about the organisation by their competitors & market analysts.
b. It is very important to understand the vision & mission of the company.
c. Figure out how the organisation's vision & mission overlap with your personal goals & vision for career development.
d. Make a detailed list of the objectives that you have achieved in the past to show your ability to achieve agreed targets.
Important questions to ask:
a. Why is the position vacant?
b. How will success be gauged?
c. What support will be made available to assist in the achievement of set objectives?
3. Create options.
To increase your power there is no replacement for being creative.
4. Use time to your benefit.
Understand the impact of timing on decision making. If you need to have a result in a hurry then you are likely to make more concessions and vice versa.
5. Lead with your weaknesses.
This will accomplish the following two things:
i. It will prevent you ending the interview on a negative note having left your weaknesses to be exposed by the interviewer's questions at the end of the interview.
ii. The likeliness is considerable that your interviewer will expose your weaknesses in any event. When they do expose your weaknesses and they happen to be consistent with what you told them it will establish you as a trustworthy & credible resource.
6. Ask for more than you want.
Research into salary negotiation best practice states that you should anchor the negotiation by slightly overstating your salary expectations. By somewhat overstating your remuneration expectations you are allowing yourself room to make concessions in order to progress the negotiation later on. If you don't have to make any concessions then you will have your bread buttered on both sides!
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