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Negotiating Salary. Is it possible? Is it wise?

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DipDog3:
This is a non-union plant.

Everyone does make good points.  I guess that I really don't have any leverage to negotiate with...

I got burned in my last job (not nuke related) by accepting a low initial offer, and even though I always had the best reviews and got the highest raises.  It was still not enough to make up the difference between me and the others that held out for more in the beginning...

Would it be okay to call them up and ask "Is this the most you can offer?"
(I am pretty sure I know what they will say, but at least I could take comfort in the fact that I asked)

Fermi2:
It won't hurt to ask but as a manager I'll tell you this, they probably interviewed a LOT of people for your position, and between you and those they didn't offer the job there might be .5% perceived difference. Given the amount of people who interviewed no manager in his right mind will offer you anymore than they offered anyone else. They'll just hire someone else, or go one short.

Mike

hamsamich:
yeah, I agree with KKG.  if there is no special reason to go after you, then you have no leverage.  and if you want to just give it a whirl and try to see if they will pay more, you are risking not getting the job.  they MAY pay you a little more, but they may just go with the next guy.  my buddy on the other hand, got his licsense, didn't nesc. want to go anywhere in particular, had a good name in the biz, so he was in the position to make a counteroffer.  he knew the place he was going wanted him, so he got all kinds of goodies plus a bonus and few thousand more per year to start.  but he already had a job and if he didn't get it no sweat off his back.  i think you need to be in a better position before you can counter offer. 

thenuttyneutron:
I have a nuke engineering degree and am starting as an AO.  So far I like it.  I like my co-workers and I am learning a lot.  One thing to remember is this.  Don't get an ivory tower attitude.  I was hired on the same day as this other nuke graduate and during the initial HR intro etc I met everyone around the table.  I asked what they would be doing etc, basically trying to get to know people I would be working with.  It seemed like that engineer had that attitude, he proudly proclaimed that he was a reactor engineer. 

Opps people will eat you for lunch if you do that.  Go in there with the attitude that you know nothing and have a lot to learn from your co-workers.  You will get a qual manuel most likely.  Read it and get familiar with what you have to learn.  When the chance comes up to observe the procedure you will be learning, jump on it.  If you have a good "I want to learn all I can from you" attitude you will be accepted by your other operators and have a good time at the job.

You will learn on your first week that us "engineering weenies", as I am affectionaly called, have so much to learn.  Eventually you will probably be shoved into an SRO class.  Remeber that will make you the boss of your former co-workers.  Earn their respect now and you will have no problems later.

JnyMac:
First of all all If you don't mind me asking what was the offer?  I have worked outside the Nuke Industry.  I am betting that with your salary and built-in overtime that you will probably be making making what an engineer in the real world with a PE and several years exp. would be making.

 By the way heard Palo Verde is looking to hire 12 AOs by the end of the year.  I don't know if it will be a mix of Navy Nukes and No exp.  Last time they only wanted prior operationds exp. or Navy Nuke.

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