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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 six key negotiation skills that you can apply to tip the scales to your advantage.
1. Be aware of how you respond to stress.
It is very important 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 preparation.
Most negotiation training workshops teach that the key to a positive negotiation outcome is the quality of the planning. The focus of your planning will differ marginally depending on whether you are interviewing for a new job within your current organisation or if you are chasing a completely new opportunity elsewhere.
Interviewing for a new job in your present company:
a. Make sure that you are in sync with the vision & the mission of the company.
b. Compile a detailed list of the objectives that you have accomplished to show your ability to meet your targets.
c. Obtain character references or endorsements from colleagues (your present supervisor would probably be the best one) attesting to the competencies that are being looked for in the new position.
Key questions to ask:
a. Why is the position available?
b. How will success be gauged?
c. What assistance will I get to help in the achievement of set objectives?
Interviewing for a new job outside of your company:
a. Make sure that you research as much as possible about the new company including taking a look at what is said about the organisation by their competition & 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 growth.
d. Make a detailed list of the targets that you have achieved in the past to show your ability to achieve agreed goals.
Important questions to ask:
a. Why is the role vacant?
b. How will success be gauged?
c. What support will be made available to help in the achievement of set objectives?
3. Create alternatives.
To increase your power there is no substitute for being creative.
4. Use time to your advantage.
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 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 close of the interview.
ii. The likeliness is considerable that your interviewer will uncover 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 slightly overstating your remuneration expectations you are allowing yourself space to make concessions in order to progress the negotiation at a later stage. If you don't have to make any concessions then you will have your bread buttered on both sides!
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