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

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Step 2: Warm up your reviewer

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Step 3: Ooze confidence

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Step 4: Demonstrate impact with flair

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Step 5: Be appalled by the first offer

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

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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)

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Step 8: Re-build self esteem

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Step 9: Gracefully accept your lot in life

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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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Negotiating your raise

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

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