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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Basically, if you do not ask for one of these...
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.
It is really appropriate for a job candidate to ask about
about it.
Either is there a signing bonus or is there the potential for a signing bonus or how about a signing bonus?
It should be part of the conversation.
How should they make their case that they should get one?
Do some research on how long the position has been available because that'll tell you how desperate the company is to hire someone new and that gives you a little more leverage because you know there's a clock and there's a window and there's a real big need.
The other thing is to look at comparable salaries for whatever the going weight is, because that can give you leverage to ask for more.
And you can also talk about what you may be leaving behind in terms of the job you're leaving and if they can make you whole.
So that's another way to make your argument for the case of why, if I take this job, it's going to set me back financially this way.
So you want to make your arguments on a number of different levels, but you want to make sure that you have your research done before you make those cases.
They went away largely because the job market had cooled and employers felt like they didn't have to resort to giving out signing bonuses in order to attract candidates.
When the number of candidates started to outnumber the number of openings, the ball was in employers' courts and they no longer had to woo candidates with signing bonuses.
So that's why they went away.
We found jobs specifically in healthcare, civil engineering jobs, cybersecurity engineers, licensed financial professionals and insurance, airplane mechanics.
So it really is all over the map.
But one thing that these fields and these jobs have in common
Is there a specific skill set that these people have or that these jobs demand?
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