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Vaniver comments on Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Bakkot 07 October 2013 03:51:07PM *  7 points [-]

I'm told, and quite willing to believe, that your salary has more to do with the five minutes of salary negotiation than the next several years of work. I am also told that salary negotiation is very much a skill.

As such, it seems it would be worth a fairly substantial amount of time and money to practice and/or get coaching in this skill. Is this done? That is, how likely am I to be able to find someone, preferably someone who has worked on the business end of salary negotiation at somewhere like Google, who I can pay to practice salary negotiation with?

ETA: I've read extensively about how to negotiate (though of course there's always something more). What I'm interested in is practice.

Comment author: Vaniver 07 October 2013 04:36:16PM 7 points [-]

I believe Ramit Sethi is the general recommendation here.