Perfect Phrases for Negotiating Salary and Job Offers: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases to Help You Get the Best Possible Salary, Perks or Promotion

by Matthew J. DeLuca, Nanette DeLuca

The right phrase for every situation . . . every time The latest guide in the top-selling, easy-to-use Perfect Phrases series gives you the correct vocabulary to use to get the best salary or job offer possible. Using words and phrases that take away the taboo surrounding the subject of money, you can ask for what you want-and deserve-with confidence.

Genres: Nonfiction

173 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2006

Reviews

[Amy Layton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now that I’ve graduated and have started looking for a career, this is just the book I need. How exactly does one negotiate money and health care offers and benefits? How does one even start those kinds of conversations? Luckily, this book provides hundreds of sample phrases to get the ball rolling. And even better, all of the phrases are professional, easily-tailored, and hit right on the money.

However, because it is a book of phrases, it’s not exactly in-depth. But what it does do is provide a generous amount of scenarios in which one or both parties are unsatisfied, and gives the opportunity for there to be a solution. Overall, quite the helpful book!

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[Elham · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book to be very very useful in any negotiation setting. I highly recommend the excerpt examples for every salary and benefits situation.

[Nate · Rating 1 out of 5]

The phrases feel far too formal and stuffy, and not emblematic or fitting of what normal business conversations sound like. The book also constantly uses the word "fair," which is interesting, since other job books say to stay away from that word like the plague when in job interviews/negotiations.

If you skim, you might be able to find something useful that will make you think about framing a sentence or idea in a particular way, but just about any book on phrasing or negotiations would do that.

So, it's not that this book is so terrible, it's just that there are so many other better options out there (e.g. Knock em Dead series). Rent this one before you buy.

[Jaci · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this as a last minute crash course in salary negotiations before a second interview where I anticipated talking about compensation. The book helped me frame the undeveloped abstract ideas I had about what I wanted and how to respond to specific questions into tangible talking points.