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April 8, 2019

Negotiating your raise

A step-by-step guide on how to effectively use Bollywood films to help you negotiate your salary raise.

by Jenifer D’Costa
2 min read
Step 1: Understand performance expectations

Farhan akhtar znmd

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Step 2: Warm up your reviewer

srk kajol k3g

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Step 3: Ooze confidence

kareena kapoor jab we met

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Step 4: Demonstrate impact with flair

mughal e azam

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Step 5: Be appalled by the first offer

dabangg sonakshi sinha

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Step 6: Be further appalled that the first offer is the last offer

abey kachra hoon kya

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Step 7: Apologise to your parents for joining the development sector (and for needing to borrow money for food and shelter)

srk jaya bachan k3g

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Step 8: Re-build self esteem

gully boy ranveer singh

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Step 9: Gracefully accept your lot in life

dharmendra

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Step 10: Be naively lured in by the promise next year holds

rani muherjee abhishek bachan bunty aur babli

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Jenifer D’Costa

Jenifer is the pseudonym for someone who has been working in the development sector for three years. She doesn't write very often but when she does, she writes for IDR.

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