I hate talking about money. My parents had a very strict \u201cwe don\u2019t talk about money\u201d rule\u2014not just at the table or at parties, but ever. Discussions about taxes or partisan fiscal policies make my palms sweat. I don\u2019t even know how to barter at street stands\u2014I just overpay what they ask me to. And that\u2019s why in the final steps of an interview process, I clam up like the tide\u2019s coming in. Because that\u2019s when the hiring manager puts in his or her \u201clet\u2019s get down to business\u201d face and asks how much money I think I should be making. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d or \u201cwhatever\u2019s standard,\u201d don\u2019t cut it as answers, so here\u2019s some advice on approaching this awkward conversation.<\/p>\n
I hate talking about money. My parents had a very strict \u201cwe don\u2019t talk about money\u201d rule\u2014not just at the table or at parties, but ever. Discussions about taxes or partisan fiscal policies make my palms sweat. I don\u2019t even know how to barter at street stands\u2014I just overpay what they ask me to. And…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":848,"featured_media":6755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to Talk About Desired Salary","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2228,123,207],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-money-talk","tag-salary","tag-vault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2018\/06\/VaultLogo.jpg?fit=802%2C339&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-249","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}