How to ask for a pay raise | Go for Your Raise

Well… this isn’t a pleasant experience.

The most important question you have to ask yourself is:

Why?

The first thing to do is to find all the possible reasons why you have been rejected.

If someone is rejected, he or she will be angry and disappointed.

Write down (in details) as soon as possible what has happened during the negotiation, because you may forget small but important details.

I repeat it! The first thing to do is to find out what mistakes YOU have made.

What I want to emphasize here is that you have to analyze the reasons why you have been rejected.

If you do this seriously and you draw the conclusions, you will have 99% more chances to succeed next time.

Besides you will acquire a knowledge which you will be able to use in several situations during your lifetime.

Another thing to do is to sum up if you are working at the right place.

Does your boss want good performances to be appreciated?

Is your employer able to lead the organization in such way that valuable employees are financially appreciated? (by giving them a raise for example)

I like to compare the process of asking for a raise to that of buying a car.

In neither of the two cases should a decision be made during the negotiation.  Not even a professional salesman can sell you a car, if you don’t want to buy it. Similarly, you cannot get a raise if your boss doesn’t want it to.

Before buying an automobile, you take into consideration the future costs of the car, the comfort that it will give you and many other properties. And so will your boss.

The employers have several things to consider before they approve of a pay raise.

Negotiation is also important; it is just like locking the door. In order to lock a door you need a door, a lock and a key. And it is YOU who has to turn the key in the lock.

Negotiation is essential, but not enough.

If you want to be successful, your preparation period can’t just be two days long. It is a process with specific steps and I recommend that you prepare yourself properly. Don’t let things happen by chance!

As I was surfing on the Big Net a I found an interesting article. How to get a pay raise – for women!

I like it!

Here is the link:

http://blogs.hbr.org/corkindale/2010/04/how_to_get_the_pay_raise_you_w.html

There are many people in this world, who are excellent at their jobs, but they are constantly failing to get a pay raise. The most important reasons for this phenomenon are the following:

1. They do not ask for it

This may seem a little bit odd to you, but please don’t skip this one!

It’s almost unbelievable that so many skilled employees with great performance do not ask for a raise. What is your reason for not asking for it?

Is it because you are too shy to do it?

Can it be that you don’t know whether you deserve it?

Are you afraid of rejection?

You don’t dare to ask for the raise because you are not sure about the amount you should get?

… or maybe you don’t know how you should ask.

Those above are the most common reasons why people do not ask for a raise. 

2. They ask for it at the wrong moment

There are times and moments when talking about money should be considered a taboo. Asking at the wrong moment will not only result in rejection but it may also cause undesired consequences.

It has probably happened to you before, that you tried to achieve something but failed, and realized, later on, that the reason for the failure was only your bad timing.

A business can be started at the wrong time. A child can be educated at the wrong time. You can even go to the beach at the wrong time. The same principle can be applied to the procedure of asking for a raise. If you are trying it at the wrong time, you will surely fail.

We should avoid these unpleasant situations and go for the certain thing. Do you agree?

3. They are not prepared

If you want to go to the beach, you have to prepare yourself. You get your swimsuit, your suntan oil, take some money with you, check out the weather forecast and so on. If you are invited for a job interview, you prepare yourself. You print out your resume, dress up in you best clothes, read the webpage of your possible future employer etc.

In order to achieve an important goal, people tend to prepare themselves as well as they can.

However, it rarely happens that an employee prepares him-/herself properly before he/she is going to ask for a raise.

4. They fail at the negotiation

You can make fatal mistakes during the negotiation. You can be the most skilled employee in your organization, but still lack the right skills for negotiating and therefore you may commit horrible mistakes, which can blow away all your preparations, plans and efforts.

5. There are people in this world, who don’t deserve a raise

Lazy people will have small chances to get a raise. I constantly try to convince those people not to read my articles; however, they still can find useful tips and information to live a quality life.

I repeat: lazy people will never get a raise!

You probably think that if your boss wants to cut back on spending, he or she will not approve your pay raise.

Let’s say you are a farmer and you have ten cows on your farm. Suddenly all cows get sick and you got no milk to sell. Each cow needs a ten-day medicine treatment in order to get well. Each cow needs to take one pill every day. Ten pills multiplied by ten days equal 100 pills.

You only have 50 pills. What are your options?

• You give a treatment to each cow for five days. On the sixth day all cows die.
• You sell five cows and a give a ten-day treatment to the rest of them. Those cows will be healthy again and will give you milk.

I know that you are not working on a farm but your boss thinks like a farmer. If he or she needs to do a cutback, he or she will get rid of the cows that are not “performing” well. This is necessary in order to continue the production and not to close down the business.

I repeat: this will only happen if your boss really wants to get rid of some of the employees.

If the situation is not that bad, your boss will pay a closer attention to the expenses and will be harsher with those in debt.

Your boss knows very well that without employees the business cannot live. The only question is: are you an employee who is important enough for your boss? And how can you tell if you are?