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There are few more stressful occurrences in your career than interviewing for a new job. Here are 6 key negotiation skills that you can deploy to tip the scales to your advantage.

1. Be aware of how you react to stress.

It is key that you realise how you respond in stressful situations so that you can ensure you prepare an approach that will guarantee you come across as composed, settled and confident.

2. Spend enough time on planning.

Most negotiation training courses teach that the key to a positive negotiation outcome is the quality of the preparation. The emphasis of your planning will differ marginally depending on whether you are interviewing for a new position within your current company or if you are pursuing a completely new opportunity elsewhere.

Interviewing for a new position in your current company:

a. Make sure that you are in sync with the vision & the mission of the company.

b. Make a detailed list of the objectives that you have delivered to show your ability to achieve agreed goals.

c. Get character references or endorsements from colleagues (your present supervisor would probably be the best one) testifying to the qualities that are being looked for in the new position.

Key questions to ask:

a. Why is the role vacant?

b. How will success be gauged?

c. What assistance will I get to aid in the achievement of set objectives?

Interviewing for a new job in another organisation:

a. Make sure that you research as much as possible about the new organisation including taking a look at what is said about the organisation by their competitors & market analysts.

b. It is very important to understand the vision & mission of the company.

c. Figure out how the organisation's vision & mission overlap with your personal goals & vision for career development.

d. Make a detailed list of the objectives that you have delivered in the past to show your ability to achieve agreed goals.

Key questions to ask:

a. Why is the position vacant?

b. How will success be gauged?

c. What support will be made available to assist in the achievement of set objectives?

3. Create options.

If you want to increase your power there is no substitute for creativity.

4. Use time to your benefit.

Understand the impact of timing on decision making. If you need to have a result in a hurry then you are likely to make more concessions and vice versa.

5. Lead with your weaknesses.

This will accomplish the following two things:

i. It will prevent you leaving the interview on a negative note having left your weaknesses to be exposed by the interviewer's questions at the close of the interview.

ii. The likeliness is significant that your interviewer will expose your weaknesses in any event. When they do expose your weaknesses and they happen to be consistent with what you told them it will establish you as a trustworthy & credible resource.

6. Ask for more than you want.

Research into salary negotiation best practice states that you should anchor the negotiation by slightly overstating your salary expectations. By somewhat overstating your salary expectations you are allowing yourself space to make concessions in order to advance the negotiation later on. If you don't have to make any concessions then you will have your bread buttered on both sides!

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