Your ability to negotiate is undeniably one of the highest-leverage skills you can learn. But tech workers are lousy at negotiation! This course is designed for tech employees who are actively or passively in the job market. Candidates who proactively think about negotiation during their job search can increase their compensation by 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars with a few extra hours of work (I'm proof of this!). **Negotiation is not that complicated. It's not even that difficult.** If you have (1) a desire to get paid more and (2) the ability to tolerate some uncertainty, you have everything you need to *manufacture* leverage and negotiate a higher compensation. This course teaches you how to do exactly that. We'll demystify how successful negotiations work so you feel confident in discussions with recruiters and hiring managers. Here's what you'll gain by the end of the course: - **✊🏽** Understand **if and when to negotiate** - 🔮 **Create leverage** for negotiations - **💰** Deconstruct the best ways to **improve your TC** - 📝 Share **concrete tactics and phrases** to employ This course is broken down into 3 major parts: 1. **Principles** - How does negotiation work and why is it worthwhile? 2. **Planning** - What should you do (and not do) before and after you receive an offer? 3. **Tactics** - What is the best course of action for various scenarios? We'll also cover tips for common situations such as: - Negotiating your current compensation at your job - Negotiating when you have a single offer - Dealing with exploding offers Finally, we'll also share specific phrases that have been used successfully by dozens of engineers, for you to adapt/copy/steal into your own negotiation playbook. This course is the distillation of 100s of hours of experience and feedback from negotiation: 100s of conversations with other tech employees, dozens of conversations with recruiters, and the author's own journey with negotiation across 10+ companies. One of the best things you can do for negotiations is to land several offers. If you need help with that, take this course first: [**\[Course\] Ace Your Tech Interview And Get A Job As A Software Engineer**](https://www.jointaro.com/course/ace-your-tech-interview-and-get-a-job-as-a-software-engineer/)