Description:
Plan for a successful salary discussion and negotiation in which you push hard enough to receive the best compensation package an employer is willing to offer, but not so hard that you jeopardize the opportunity.

Objectives:
• Learn how to negotiate a contract by maintaining a healthy relationship with your future employer.
• Understand the importance of knowing the employer’s negotiating position before conveying your own.
• Learn what research tools to leverage when negotiating a contract.

Description:
Develop a list of questions that each interviewer is likely to ask as well as your own questions that will enable you to collect all the facts that are relevant to your personal job search priorities.

Objectives:
• Anticipate the questions that an interviewer will ask and practice your responses.
• Review your own sample questions that are specific to the interviewer, such as a chief financial officer, physician recruiter, medical director, or physician.

Description:
This exercise will help you make your decision by evaluating your offers in a side-by-side, apples-to-apples comparison.

Objectives:
• Learn how to prioritize your offers and select the right opportunity.

Description:
You cannot make a good decision about which offer to accept without gathering all of the facts regarding compensation and comparing them to what you believe is acceptable. This exercise worksheet that will help you make an objective evaluation.

Objectives:
• Document the details of your compensation package offer and compare them point-by-point with what’s acceptable to you.

Description:
Certain competencies are important for every physician’s success and ongoing career development. This exercise will help you evaluate the liklihood of each employment opportunity to support you in your development.

Objectives:
• Determine which opportunities are best suited to your compentencies and career growth.