Negotiating Salary as an Entry Level Employee – Work in Sports e078 - a podcast by Brian Clapp - Work in Sports

The dreaded salary negotiation question is here. We dive into how you should approach your salary negotiation even as an entry level candidate. Listen in!

Hi everybody I’m Brian Clapp Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the work in sports podcast.



We’re closing out the month of April and I think April is an underrated sports month. The draft, the NBA playoffs, the Stanley Cup finals, baseball is getting into a groove – I love having options.



I was sitting around watching the draft, couple of cold beers in the fridge (yes I am a beer snob) and swinging between NBA games, NHL games…and a little bit of Thor: Dark World…all in all a very good time.



Since I’m pretty NFL addicted, I signed up for a few new podcasts this weekend – started off with Pro Football Talk PM. Now I like the pro football talk site, even though it is basically an aggregator, they don’t really report anything, they take the hard work of other reporters and repurpose the content, but I get all the news in one spot and then go to the original story link when I need or want more detail.



Have to say, I was really annoyed with the podcast.



Mike Florio must have mentioned hashtag PFT posse about 20 times in the first 5 minutes, and then talked about his marathon running and favorite movies. Why not just call it the Mike Florio getting to know you hour?



I don’t know, kind of bored and bothered me. Self-indulgent.



Then again, he’s a millionaire and I’m a thousandaire so maybe I need to be more self-promotional and tell you what I had for breakfast and share my top ten albums of all-time.



Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet would be high on that list btw.



So if anyone has any good podcast recommendations – I’m talking sports, true crime, history, biography, science – I’m up for it. I love good content. So share. Go on to our private facebook group and tell me your favorite podcasts. I need some new stuff on the dial, and I cant listen to myself. It’s weird.



Before I jump into today’s question from Hannah Carson – I have a success story from fan of the podcast and member of our private facebook group Carson Mason.

I wanted to let you know I have accepted a New Media internship with the Pittsburgh Penguins for this summer! 



I want to thank you for your counsel and guidance in my summer internship search. I did a Skype interview for this internship and listened to your podcast on video interviews the night before. The podcast helped calm my nerves and made me more confident for the interview. I have learned so much about the sports industry and job process from your podcast episodes and cannot thank you enough.



Thanks again for your help and for keeping up the awesome podcast.

I’ll take a moment to be self-indulgent here – you guys probably notice there are no ads on this show. We at work in sports.com aren’t using this platform to generate revenue, I’m not saying we never will, but that wasn’t the plan with this concept.



We wanted to help. We wanted to share information that can drive you further in your career – we wanted to help you be successful. It is working. I’m getting emails like this 2-3 times pper week and it gives all of us at WorkinSports.com great joy and satisfaction.



Good luck Carson – and thank you. You made my day.



Now let’s switch Carson’s and go to today’s question from Hannah Carson, a student at Xavier University who is jumping into the entry level job market and wants to know about salary negotiation:

My question is related to asking those awkward questions relating to salary.

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