How should I prepare to ask for a raise?
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Karen James Chopra, LPC, MCC, NCC, has been counseling career clients since 1999 and has helped hundreds of clients change careers, find new jobs and deal more effectively with workplace challenges.
In addition to her private practice, she has worked for two national corporate outplacement firms: Lee Hecht Harrison and Resource Careers. These are the organizations that help people who have experienced a layoff or downsizing to find new jobs, and their programs are usually considered the gold-standard of job search technique.
Ms Chopra is a regular presenter on career issues, having taught career theory at the graduate level, designed and delivered numerous workshops, and served as a regular guest commentator on WMAL’s career radio show “Your Career Life.”
She is a career-changer herself. Before entering the counseling field, she worked for nearly a decade as a trade negotiator for the United States Government, first at the Department of Commerce and then at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Ms. Chopra holds a number of relevant licenses and certifications: licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the District of Columbia; Master Career Counselor (MCC), a designation of the National Career Development Association (NCDA); and National Certified Counselor (NCC), a designation of the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). She belongs to all of the relevant national and local associations involved in career counseling, including the American Counseling Association (ACA), the National Employment Counselors Association (NECA), the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the Washington Metropolitan Area Career-Life Planning Network (MAC-LPN).
Her B.A. is from the University of Virginia, and she received a masters of science in foreign service from Georgetown University, and a masters in community counseling from George Washington University.
How should I prepare to ask for a raise?
Host: How should I prepare to ask for a raise?
Karen James Chopra: To prepare for asking for a raise, you want to sit down and do a lot of thinking and research and documenting. So if you are asking for a raise because your performance has been outstanding, you want to provide lots of documentation about how you have done. Numbers, percentage increase in sales or website hits or whatever it was you were responsible for, notes or letters from clients or contacts who have been happy with your work performance, letters from within the company, from bosses, from the President of the company praising you for what you have done, you want to pull all of that documentation together and turn that into a presentation about, "I think I have done a really good job this year.
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Host: How should I prepare to ask for a raise?
Karen James Chopra: To prepare for asking for a raise, you want to sit down and do a lot of thinking and research and documenting. So if you are asking for a raise because your performance has been outstanding, you want to provide lots of documentation about how you have done. Numbers, percentage increase in sales or website hits or whatever it was you were responsible for, notes or letters from clients or contacts who have been happy with your work performance, letters from within the company, from bosses, from the President of the company praising you for what you have done, you want to pull all of that documentation together and turn that into a presentation about, "I think I have done a really good job this year. Here are a few examples of the things that I have managed to do with lots of data to back it up. Here are what people have been saying about me and my performance and here is what I would like going forward in terms of compensation.
"So you want to not do a negotiation for a raise on the fly. You want to sit down and really prepare for it. You also want to think about what arguments the boss might be presenting to you and have some responses prepared before you sit down with the boss to talk about a raise.
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