Take it from another who learned the hard way.  Job
interviewing is like a courtship.  Any of you who
married someone you THOUGHT you knew only to scratch
your head and try to figure out how you got hooked up
with THAT creature once wed know how this goes.

In the interviewing process, employers are apt to tell
you just about anything to get you hired, but they
will often reneg on that once you are in.  Remember,
with little exception, most jobs are "at will."

Your best bet in negotiating such things is to get any
of the things you want to ensure you retain once hired
in writing.  Ask for an offer letter (critical path in
case they later reneg on the offer because then you
have cause to go for breach of contract) and be sure
it's delineated in there.  Learn to politely assert
yourself in such matters.  If you are talented enough
and they want you, you can say, excuse me, but I
believe you left out the part about "blah blah blah"
and ask them to include it.  You may also want to give
them some suggested verbiage on that.

Yes, some may be taken aback perhaps.  However, it
should convey that you truly are a professional with
enough confidence to protect your rights which means
you can also be dilligent about protecting their
entity.

Don't ask them to put something in the letter you
haven't already negotiated; that would be unfair.  But
verbal contracts are much harder to enforce and you're
better off having the information in hard copy on
their letterhead.

Far too many employees know their rights (see the
Topics section of my employee web site below for some
of the laws that spell out some of those rights) and,
as such, they abrogate them.




> For those of you entering the profession or thinking
> about switching jobs, I
> think this is a great lesson (I learned it myself a
> while ago) on how work
> hours and expectations of comp time need to be
> negotiated upfront.
>
> Maria Munoz-Blanco
>
>
> "The important thing is not to stop questioning."
> Albert Einstein


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