STEMskiller: Skill Set Map for Mentors of Early Career Researchers

CAREER MANAGEMENT: Placement and job searching/seeking

[Academic positions]

Salary negotiation

Definition:

Early career researchers may not have held jobs in which they need to negotiate salaries and other benefits, if these are not provided during the hiring process. 

Useful resources on Salary negotiation:

Hoover, M. (2013). Negotiating job offers. The Florida State University Career Center. https://career.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/imported/storage/original/application/d7d55bbdde340
630793c13f24fec3962.pdf

Four-page handout including all aspects of the job offer process, including Factors That May Be Negotiated, Making the Right Decision, Negotiating the Offer, and The Final Step: Put it in Writing.

University of Michigan Student Affairs Career Center. (2020). Evaluating and Negotiating Offers. https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/salary-and-relocation-information

Includes: Evaluating the Offer, Salary Research Tools, Requesting an Offer Deadline Extension, Implications of Backing Out of an Offer already Accepted, Should You Negotiate?, and Negotiation Tactics. 

Tags: All IPS; all PSR; all IAL; CompGS; CompTS

Peer Review: None

Table of contents:

3.4. Placement and job searching/seeking


3.4.1. Non-academic positions

3.4.2. Academic positions


3.4.2.1. Applying for academic jobs
3.4.2.2. CVs and cover letters
3.4.2.3. Application essays and other (teaching, research) statements
3.4.2.4. Interview techniques for academic positions
3.4.2.5. Pitch training in preparation for interviews


3.4.2.6. Salary negotiation
3.4.2.7. Qualifications/skills documentation and verification
3.4.2.8. Skills gap identification and development


3.4.3. Leaving academia: career planning for doctoral candidates

 

Author: Stephanie Krueger

Peer Reviewer(s): None

Last Updated: October 28, 2021