Keeping it Simple: Negotiating Tactics for Recent Grads

This piece in The New York Post caught our attention.

Here’s why: A college grad with NBC and BWR internships under his or her belt has a B.S. in marketing and an M.A. in mass media communications.

Their thesis won national honors and yet a job offer specified $35,000 as the starting salary.

The reader asked about a fair way to negotiate the salary. Greg Giangrande, chief HR officer at Time, Inc. pointed out, “What’s fair is what the market will bear.

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