The Art of Salary Negotiation: Answers to Reader Questions  by
Vault Careers | April 21, 2010  --Posted by Caroline Ceniza-
Levine  From the recent and SixFigureStart Ask Anything
teleclass, here are some questions on salary:  Lisa asks: What’s
the best way to approach a recruiter about salary
negotiation…I’d like to know a) how someone new to the workforce
should approach negotiation, and b) how that changes when you’ve
got a few years of experience.  Recruiters will demand to know
salary before they present you to the client. They need to know
that you are in the ballpark of what their client is expecting.
It also is good market knowledge for them to have. So you need
to know that whatever you say goes to their client.  When you
are new, you might think you have no negotiating leverage. It is
true that the big management training programs or analyst/
associate programs at banks and consulting firms have set
salaries with little negotiating. But for everywhere else, and
that means most other jobs, there is no