Ray A. Smith
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910 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2018
last heard Nov 2024
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And she ended up asking for those kinds of things later in her career after failing to do so earlier in her career.
It's a really tough position to be in, but it's worth asking.
Candidates should try to ask for maybe some kind of sign-on bonus to offset the cost, especially if they're leaving another job to join this company.
That's one request that one expert told us that people can make.
Typically, medical benefits and things like 401k plans are not negotiable because those policy options and terms are usually uniform for all employees.
It's going to be sort of unfair if you try to get some kind of additional health care benefit that others aren't getting.
It's usually a company-wide plan.
During the labor shortages of recent years, companies were really boasting about their benefits and beefing up their benefit plans because they really used them to attract workers to show how generous they were.
And now they are nervous about passing on higher cost benefits.
to employees because it can affect their ability to attract and retain employees.
A company won't necessarily volunteer that you can get it or that they'll offer it.
So it's really incumbent on the candidate, if they're not explicitly told that there will be a signing bonus with this job, to ask.
A signing bonus is basically a financial incentive.
It's money paid up front to sweeten the deal.
Companies offer them to entice highly sought-after candidates that they're in discussions with or to woo them away from rivals.
In some cases, a job posting will state that there is a signing bonus.
But in other cases, companies often keep quiet about those payments.
They're betting that new recruits won't even think to ask for one.
So is this sort of a don't ask, don't pay type thing?
Yes, it is.
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