Indeed Commercial How I Negotiated a 33% Raise 2025

VIDEO Indeed How I Negotiated a 33% Raise TV commercial 2020 • Asking for a raise? Get advice from someone who's been there. Tim, a congressional staff member, shares his winning tips for getting a significant salary increase from his employer. His key pieces of advice are: 1. Be honest with your employer about your career goals and financial needs, and what your actions will be if they cannot be met. 2. Secure another job opportunity; you don’t have to accept it. Having another offer in hand can increase your negotiating power in your current position. 3. Let your employer know that a different company is willing to pay more for your work. They may choose to increase your salary in order to keep you as an employee. However, do not tell your employer about a job offer unless you are willing to leave your current position. 4. See yourself as a commodity, and do not be afraid to advocate for your value. #IndeedJobMarket 00:00 my name is Tim Hardin and this is how I 00:02 negotiated a 33 percent race I work in 00:06 the Texas capital I am a chief of staff 00:08 for a state representative out of the 00:09 Dallas Fort Worth area when I took the 00:11 job in 2013 we had just had our second 00:14 child and over the course of the last 00:16 four years we've since had two more sons 00:19 so I have four sons and of course with 00:21 the extra mouths to feed come a need for 00:24 more income to feed those mouths honesty 00:26 is the best policy so I approached my 00:28 boss and just told him my needs and and 00:31 kind of where I was at and that if we 00:33 weren't able to meet that I would have 00:34 to find a job that could support me and 00:36 my family I don't think he actually took 00:38 me very seriously when I said it so I 00:40 started looking online and I found an ad 00:43 for a construction company I ended up 00:46 interviewing with with the owner 00:48 literally made me an offer on the spot 00:50 which greatly exceeded the current 00:52 salary so ended up calling my boss and 00:55 he sat down with me 00:58 I explained him where I was that again 00:59 he basically said listen I do not want 01:01 to lose you what is it going to take and 01:05 I told him he's gonna have to match that 01:06 that person's offer and he agreed and 01:08 there is where the salad race came from 01:10 in the negotiating process first and 01:12 foremost you have to be serious and you 01:14 you're not you're not bluffing that 01:15 you're leaving you actually have to be 01:16 willing to leave the job you have to see 01:19 yourself as a commodity ultimately if 01:21 you think that the product of you is 01:24 worth more than you're currently being 01:26 paid then you have to make the case and 01:28 sell yourself you have to justify why 01:30 those dollars deserve to go into your 01:32 bank account 01:32 [Music] 01:34 you 01:37 [Music]- advertisement spot 2020