#JobOffer #Negotiation #CareerAdvice
Hey everyone,
So I have a little confession to make… I messed up. 😅
I finally received a job offer, but I got greedy and tried to negotiate for a higher salary. In the end, I chickened out and accepted the original offer after a phone call with HR. And now, the offer is off the table.
But hey, silver lining – some say it’s a good thing because it shows they wouldn’t value me enough to keep me around if things got tough.
So, what do you think I should do now? Here are some solutions I came up with:
– Reach out to the employer and apologize for the miscommunication
– Continue applying for other job opportunities
– Learn from this experience and be more decisive next time
Any other suggestions? Let’s turn this mess into a learning experience for us all! 🚀
NTA
That really sucks. Did the company give you any indication as to why they rescinded the offer? Are you sure it was because of the salary conversation?
If your request was reasonable (within 10% of what they originally offered), it was not the salary negotiation that made them rescind the offer. Negotiating your salary right after getting an offer is very normal, especially if you didn’t negotiate before you got the offer. So it’s most likely a them issue, not a you issue.
Did you indicate a salary expectation when you started the process of interviewing?
If you accepted and then negotiated it might have worried them.
Did you discuss salary prior to the offer being sent? Did you know their range, did they know yours? If there wasn’t alignment between the two did you ask about ability to negotiate? Some places make their best and final with the first pass, and that should have been communicated by the company.
Negotiating in 2024 is in bad taste. Times have changed. Read the room and recognize there’s a line of people willing to accept even less than was originally offered
I know you’re telling yourself this to make yourself feel better, but they wouldn’t have let you go At the slightest inconvenience. They just figured that you would quit at the slightest inconvenience Seeing how you weren’t happy with the money in the first place
Classic example of both sides not putting themselves in the other person’s shoes And both sides lose.
And if some recruiter post this on some other thread I’ll tell them they screwed up too
Tale as old as time
Was the salary range posted? Generally companies assume you’re okay with the top of the range if you’re applying to that position.
>However, I tried to negotiate for a higher salary. The salary was not so bad but I wanted better.
Successful negotiation requires leverage.
Negotiation always involves some measure of risk. If you cannot afford risk (and there are times where we cannot), then don’t attempt to engage in a process that adds risk.
In this market, a candidate has to really evaluate how much leverage they have, and how much risk they can tolerate.
I’ve been hearing of this lately. I think there is currently too much competition for each position
It’s a bummer to have an offer redacted. It’s not a bummer when you’re negotiating for what you know you deserve. Companies trying to “reset” pandemic salaries need to know candidates aren’t just going to accept roles at a discount.
There isn’t enough information (really none) to say if you were at fault or if they did you a favor.
Have no idea the job title, pay offered, what you countered with, the area the job is in, etc
>…The salary was not so bad …
That is the key part, it was below your salary expectation or did you think that you were above market range for that position,
Either way, if you were unemployed and this offer is good enough the better way to handle it was to request instead a 3 month performance review. It is more common than you think and can give you the chance to breath and work for the time being, either you would perform above expectation and recieve the rise or can move on if the company is not what you were expecting.
I think people need to acknowledge the job market has shifted. It’s not necessarily a bullet dodged that a company isn’t negotiating right now. The market is flooded with talented individuals looking for jobs, it’s really easy to move on to the next when you ask for a lot more.
The advice of always negotiate is great advice when you don’t need a job or it’s a candidates market. When you need a job in an employers market, accept the offer if you’re happy with it or need some income. If you still want more, you can always continue applying after accepting.
This happened to me once too. It sucked really bad. In the end I kind of knew I wouldn’t like it there, but it was the only offer I had and I needed out of my current job so it was upsetting. I ended up with a different job about 6 months after that, and got laid off from it a year later (January 2024). Still struggling now trying to get literally any job.
My view is that you negotiate salary at the interviews. If you try and bump it up at the end, it’s a bad look.
How would you have liked it had they tried to bump it down?
In a sea of desperate candidates, we have no power, so youth and ego are both quick to get a lesson in humility. From the moment you interview, you start giving reasons to be terminated, even if you start out with zero friction. HR is always your enemy.
Nothing worse (from a recruiters perspective) than having a candidate try and negotiate after going through the approvals process to get the base they asked for. Negotiate up front before the company goes through the work of getting an offer approved.
This is why people need to stop negotiating. Those times are gone. Accept what you get or be out of a job.
All this really depends on how the salary discussions went in the first place? Had they told you what they could offer upfront and you may be agreed at the start?
Even so negotiations are a very typical part of the process and hiring managers typically expect it. I suspect that may be whatever reasons or basis you provided to negotiate did not sit well with them or may be your ask was way above the normal range.
Market is tough, real jobs are hard to come by and employers know that they do have a pool of a lot of qualified candidates so they do not mind investing time or prolonging hiring decisions. Remember the lay offs happened to cut cost. They are still cutting costs
So sorry to hear this. It’s becoming much more common. I now recommend people not to try and negotiate salary.
I’m not sure why people are so shocked and offended at the notion that when negotiating the other party can walk away.
Might as well name drop, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona pulled a similar move with me, however I was a contractor already working for them, signed my offer letter after we negotiated, they changed their mind a week later, they fired me and cancelled my contract on Valentine’s Day 2023. GFYS BCBSAZ. No notice at all, never had any issues, I was a top performer and I remember the very last user I helped because I went above and beyond instead of just sending the issue up the chain. I stopped caring so much after that. It has been an emotional rollercoaster since then. I will always hate them.
I’m sure my salary demands have kept me out of the running for some jobs and made the difference when it came down to me and another candidate. Years ago a recruiter recommended accepting a lower salary and negotiating up once the company saw my value. It worked in that instance, but the 10 months on the lower salary was painful.
I felt that I lucked out though because none of my other colleagues got the same benefits, and because of that I go in with my salary expectations on my sleeve. Im wondering if maybe that’s not the best approach after all.
You dodged a bullet, they would never give you what you want. Find somewhere that will pay you your worth and not get scared when you ask for money
I would normally negotiate a higher salary if the job market had less applicants and companies are scraping the bottom of the barrel, but right now, there are so many applicants that are desperate that companies will go with someone else that will just take the offer as-is.
In this situation, if it’s a job that I’m not fond of or the salary is a bit weak, I would still take the offer but still apply to other jobs.