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4. Obviously, Aiden’s supportive sibling (not to assign) any important
projects to rookies, as they (not to be used/not to get used to) (to keep)
the project within the planned timeline.
5. Actually, Joshua’s ugly nephew (to be) eager (to achieve) his goals
but he (not be) interested in (to burn) midnight oil every day at work.
Exercise 511. Watch video 4.3 and discuss it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAWACsAGU
I didn't want to talk a little bit about what happens after the interview
process. So, when you're at the offer stage or maybe not offer stage.
Maybe the best way to approach this would be to throw some
misconceptions or some myths that I've heard at you and see if they're real
if they are actually myths. So, why don't we start with a candidate gets an
offer they get an offer from Google for instance should they even try to
negotiate or are they risking getting their offer revoked something? Yeah,
great question, I would say that yes. I have not at Google. So, this is pre
Google I have revoked two offers in 20 years and these are like many
moons ago for reasons that had to do with more like background checks
and things like that. So, the idea that you're going to get your offer revoked
because you're simply trying to make the best deal for yourself is
absolutely a hundred percent a myth. I even if I know you're gonna decline
the offer I'm still making it I mean you have earned a Google offer letter,
I am going to put it in your hands come hell or high water. So, as far as
negotiating and going into that conversation I like to talk about money,
pretty early I mentioned it in my very first call like - hey this is gonna be
important we don't have to figure it out today we've only just met, but we
are gonna talk about this. So, thinking about expectations once you
interview you'll have a better idea of what we're asking you to do, you can
tell me what that's gonna cost and just know that my goal is to find the
magic number that you and the company could feel good about. That said
I understand that sometimes especially for candidates who really just don't
want to tell me that information the first number or the first offer can
sometimes feel icky. Just tell me that! Say- hey, you know, thanks for the
offer I really am looking for X. Cool, let's see if we can get there or maybe
we can get close to X. So, no you know. That's you see this is super useful
information good I think people just naturally have these misconceptions
they feel that awkwardness of like I don't want to seem ungrateful or I
don't want to you know put my relationship with this recruiter at risk. But
it sounds like it's just better to be honest because at the end of the day you
know you want both parties to be happy. But I'm the bigger risk honestly
for what it's worth the bigger risk is withholding information if you're not
helping me help you, I start questioning like are we really friends are we
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