Justify Your Numbers

This article will review how to justify your numbers and your compensation package at the end of the student affairs job search. It’ll include how to explain your reasoning as well as how to begin the conversation about increasing the offered compensation. It’s important to stay objective; remain logical; and quantify your “ask” during this process. That’s why this article will also address how to include recent accomplishments; institutional knowledge; and market worth as part of your negotiation plan. Finally, this article closes with strategies that include aiming high; preparing responses to questions; and timing your negotiation correctly.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngJune 30, 2020salary, salary negotiationComment

Your Market Worth

This article will answer what “market worth” is. In addition, special considerations related to salary and compensation are discussed as they relate to hidden information in the negotiation process. Specific steps are outlined on how to research and calculate your market worth. Also, specific factors are addressed for evaluating your market worth and your compensation as an employee of an institution. Finally, this article closes on the balancing act between evaluating your market worth and new career opportunities.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngJune 23, 2020market worth, salary, salary negotiationComment

How much do you make?

This article will provide an overview of how to learn and share your salary responsibly with other professionals. It includes an outline of why you should ask this important question as well as where to start. This article also addresses why asking is a social taboo as well as why answering the question can be equally as difficult. As employees we also have the right to share our salary information with each other. So, this article will go into depth about both the values and the downsides of sharing. Lastly, the article closes on applicable strategies towards having and hosting this conversation.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngJune 2, 2020salary negotiation, salary, compensationComment

Cost of Living

This article will answer what the “cost of living” is and why it’s important to consider for your career, your personal life, and your student affairs job search. Cost of living comparisons and considerations will be shared and discussed. Cost of living increases examined as part of your overcall compensation. This article also covers other aspects related to your costs of living that you may not have thought of before. This article closes on some tools that you can use to calculate your cost of living in order to make more informed decisions about your career development.

Dave EngMay 19, 2020cost of living, salary, benefits, cost of living increasesComment

Salary Research Tools

This article will cover what you should consider when researching and proposing an estimated salary for your next student affairs job opportunity. The article includes what salary tools you can rely on during your student affairs job search. In addition, specific tools addressing your search for other non-profit organizations as well as estimates for your cost of living are covered. Finally, a list of general salary research tools is provided for you to use throughout your career.

Dave EngMay 5, 2020salary, research, tools, salary negotiationComment

Don’t Settle

This article will cover how settling for an initial salary job offer could be a big mistake. The article also covers the research required to determine what competitive compensation is. Other forms of compensation that you are entitled to is also explored. In addition, how to address salary questions during the interview is provided. Finally, advice and actionable steps are included to aid you in your student affairs job search.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngApril 7, 2020salary, compensation, negotiationComment

Why you should negotiate your salary

This article will cover salary from the candidate’s perspective. Specifically, it’ll address some of the top reasons to negotiate your salary as well some of the most common fears around negotiation. This article includes how knowing your own worth can put you in a powerful bargaining position. It closes by focusing on speaking up at this critical part of the student affairs job search and offers some parting words before embarking on your own negotiation.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngMarch 24, 2020salary, negotiationComment

Before you Apply: Student Affairs Salary Negotiation

My advisees have often asked me this question WHILE they are negotiating. But they would be in a better position IF they had addressed these question both BEFORE and DURING their job search. There really is no time like the present to think about your negotiation strategy and how you plan on getting compensated. So let’s get started early. Here are some tips that I’ve shared with an innumerable number of mentees on student affairs salary negotiating strategies BEFORE they apply for the job.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngJune 24, 2019salary, Student Affairs Job SearchComment

Negotiating Salaries in Student Affairs

But negotiating a salary? You haven’t been here before. That’s why salary negotiations can be such a pain point for the student affairs professional. Many have little to no experience with them.

Student Affairs Job SearchDave EngApril 8, 2019salary, Student Affairs Job SearchComment

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