Using office politics to upgrade your salary – part 3

by Shadowmaster on 22/01/10 at 10:39 am

This is the final chap­ter for using the office pol­i­tics to upgrade ours salary. you can find pre­vi­ous posts here:

http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2010/01/using-office-politics-to-upgrade-your-salary-%E2%80%93-part-1/

http://www.theofficesurvivor.com/2010/01/using-office-politics-to-upgrade-your-salary-%E2%80%93-part-2/

Using the office politics

this approach requires the most of you, if ear­lier when using the “get it” approach you were nom­i­nated for an Oscar,this approach is one step above –it’s Oscar win­ning performance.as it com­bines the two approaches from before “ask for it” and “get it”.

Once again there are few ways to use this approach and we’ll deal with each and every­one of it. Using this approach is usu­ally done when you know for sure that your com­pany won’t give you any money with­out dras­tic mea­sure­ments from your part or that you need a backup plan for the “Ask for it” approach.

One way to use this approach is actu­ally to look for a new place; by doing so you are get­ting a con­tract and hav­ing real evi­dence to your wishes to leave. After you have your con­tract go directly to your super­vi­sor and asks for more money as you know you deserve it (key word here is “know” and not “think” as this will empower your wish), as you know the com­pany and the man­age­ment and knows you need to show them you are seri­ous about your request you will let them know about the other oppo­site offer you have by show­ing it to them (that’s why it’s always bet­ter to have it and not just tell you have it).

Try to show your cur­rent man­age­ment you’re dis­ap­pointed and that oth­ers appre­ci­ate you and your advan­tages (don’t for­get to state them, as we dis­cussed in pre­vi­ous arti­cle why it’s impor­tant to have a “do” list)-again this is to empower your position.

win-win sit­u­a­tion

At this point you are in a win-win situation.if your cur­rent office offers you bet­ter terms you’ll stay there, if the “new place” con­tract is still bet­ter than the cur­rent office’s offer you can always leave and start work­ing there; in any case you have upgraded your salary.

The other way to use office pol­i­tics and your Oscar win­ning per­for­mance is when you want to leave the office and you wish to upgrade the salary offers from other places.

At that moment you still have your cur­rent office so you still being paid so you don’t’ have to worry about being paid at the end of the month. When you state a salary in a job inter­view always ask some­thing that is higher than your cur­rent one as your wish is to upgrade it.

oppo­site side thinks it’s too much and low­ers you?

I’m not going to deal with your math and deci­sion and if the lower offer suits you or not, as this won’t be the office pol­i­tics way, as our motto in such cases is “upgrade as much as you can”.

Now back to the office pol­i­tics way, when the other side gives you an offer that is lower don’t be shy, tell them that you dis­ap­pointed and state your pro­fes­sional advan­tages and why you are the per­fect for the posi­tion (you were accepted there for you state why you are per­fect and not why you are a per­fect can­di­date!) and that you are going to put every minute in the posi­tion you was sure they’ll under­stand it and give you what you have requested.

sta­tis­tics gives you 3 trys before you are out

Other office man­age­ment most likely will offer you a bet­ter “final offer” , exam­ine it if it’s still doesn’t seems right for you play it hard.

2nd try

As the 2nd try hap­pens you are hold­ing an improved “last offer” and a request to call and inform them tomor­row about your deci­sion. This is your last chance to play it hard, in case you are afraid to lose the “last offer” you can agree to it, but if you have the balls for it, it’s time to play it hard lit­tle bit more for the very last time.

Your future employer asks you to call and update him about your deci­sion– don’t call, as you play hard and it’s time for “a cat and a mouse” game, as you didn’t call them back they’ll call you after a day, in such case you should tell them you still don’t have an answer as you really want to work there (again state their advan­tages over oth­ers) but you still need more time to think about the new offer.

try to let them know you want more money as they still didn’t give you as much (or closer) amount to what you have asked. Tell them you’ll call them back in 1–2 more days. Now is the tricky part, if they want you.

they’ll call after 2 days, but if not you’ll call them on the 3rd day and say you really hope they could think about some­thing and come towards you and maybe the final offer can be tweak lit­tle bit.

Most chances you’ll get it your way and will get an improved really final offer – it doesn’t mean you get exact what you want but you improved the orig­i­nal offer 2 times, and now it’s up to you to decide.

Con­cul­sion

When we come to upgrade our­selves we have to remem­ber that play­ing hard can turn into our dis­ad­van­tages – as using the above tac­tics if you don’t play it cor­rectly and under­stand the other side act might leave you with invalid offer.

The man­age­ment always try to pay less and get more as oppo­site to employ­ees who wants to do less and get more, read­ing the cards right and hav­ing the right hand sure helps us get what we want.

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