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I SET MYSELF A SALARY OF X AMOUNT, CHEERS!

"Let´s talk money now - nobody lives on just oxygen and love! Hence, what´s your salary expectation in order for you to be motivated and happy in this role?" I ask the candidate this super-easy question in the last stage of the interview. It requires only a short, concrete response - just a number or at least a reference to a level between a set of numbers! But no, yet again we are facing a situation when the eye contact disappears automatically, a recently very talkative candidate transforms in an instant to beetroot-purple, and they murmur: "Well I don´t know...Haven´t really thought about it..." Oooooh crap! I didn´t ask an answer to a mathematical equation that can only be either correct or not. I asked for honesty, straightforwardness, and guts to stand up for one´s value. Why is asking and offering a salary so challenging? And what would happen if one had an opportunity to set their own salary? Chaos, bankruptcy, ripped-off Employer? Apparently not as the practitioners claim.

Full article on how self-setting of salaries could work based on real-life success stories is published in Estonian under the title of "Ma määran endale X summa palka, aitäh!" in a leadership magazine Director (July 2018).
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  • THE "ME-ME-ME" TAB
  • My Publications
    • DEAR SANTA, PLEASE HELP US TO SURVIVE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!
    • ARE YOU IN THE EYES AND HEARTS OF YOUR PEOPLE, EMPLOYER?
    • DO YOU TAKE A PINK ELEPHANT WITH YOU TO WORK?
    • LEADER, THIS IS MUSIC TO YOUR EARS!
    • WHAT'S YOUR SUPERPOWER? I'M A MUMMY-LEADER!
    • I SET MYSELF A SALARY OF X AMOUNT, CHEERS!
    • THOSE KILLER MEETINGS
    • CHEERS TO HEALTHY!
    • THE TRIUMPH OF MEDIOCRITY
    • ARE YOU A CORPORATE REBEL?
    • JUST PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIGGY AND THAT'S IT?!
    • DO YOU ALSO DO A Y?
    • I''M SORRY!
    • WHEN THE EMPLOYER MAKES PEOPLE'S HEART BEAT FASTER WITH HAPPINESS...
    • WORKING AND HAPPY!?
    • LAUGHING ONESELF TO SUCCESS
    • EMPLOYER, WHAT'S YOUR PURPLE COW?
    • GO ON, MOTIVATE ME THEN SOMEHOW!
    • NO JERKS ALLOWED!
    • AND IT BURNT - YAY!
    • DID CURIOSITY KILL THE CAT?
    • HEDGEHOG IS NOT IN THE FOG AFTER ALL
    • IDEAL MALE (WRONG!) MANAGER. BE LIKE LEADER-JOE!
    • LET'S BREAK UP!
    • HOW TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH TIME?
    • WHY (,) SIMON?
    • EFFICIENCY. THIS DAMN EFFICIENCY!
    • DOES IT HAVE TO BE LONELY AT THE TOP?
    • HOW CRISPY IS REALLY THE PRICE OF SOCIAL MEDIA?
  • BLOGGING AND STUFF
    • BE A COLOURFUL PURL(BALL)!
    • THE CONFERENCE CALL
    • THE MANIFESTO OF A HAPPY ORGANISATION
    • DEAR SANTA, HOW TO ENHANCE THE BOND OF A TEAM AT CHRISTMAS?
    • EMPLOYER BRANDING – WHY AND HOW YOU SHOULD BUILD AN OUTSTANDING ONE?
    • WORKING WITH A GREEN-EYED GREMLING?
    • HAVE YOU BEEN VACCINATED? SARCASM GOES AROUND!
    • LEADERS IN HEELS
    • YES, I CAN - JUST WATCH ME!
    • A GLASS OF WATER, PLEASE!
    • "TOLD YOU SO!" SINCERELY, YOUR GUT
    • IT IS ALL ABOUT PARTICIPATION...OR IS IT?
    • ARE YOU ALL EARS?
    • A BIT OF KERMIT...
    • HELLO, I'M INTELLIGENT, EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT!
    • FROM A NUT TO A LEADER? YEAH, TOTALLY!
    • SHARING IS CARING!
    • ROBOTS AND PEOPLE CAN BE FRIENDS!
    • LET'S TALK BUSINESS!
    • A GOOD CHILD HAS MANY NAMES?
    • THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING
  • A QUOTE A DAY...
  • GET IN TOUCH