I’m always looking for resources to support my clients and I’ve recently come across a new kind of company that helps individuals negotiate job offers. These companies aim to correct the imbalance of power between the company (that has a huge amount of negotiation experience) and the individual in a negotiation.
They provide some combination of tactical advice, personalized script templates, and market data and I’ve highlighted a few of the relevant pieces for each company:
“We give you the intel to navigate tough career conversations and get paid fairly. Join us as we aim to close pay gaps for women and underrepresented minorities.”
“For $195 we’ll build you a 25-page report of personalized feedback, tactical advice, and market data from professionals, hiring managers, and recruiters in your field. If you don’t have a better understanding of your market value after receiving your report, we’ll refund your full order.”
“Salary negotiation for top tech professionals—earn up to $50k more. Companies negotiate every day, you don’t—Candor helps you have an honest chance at getting your worth.”
“After an initial call with Candor, you’ll be matched with an agent that will help you with all facets of the negotiation, including negotiation strategy, mock negotiation, as well as helping you understand your equity, review your offer letter and compare compensation between areas with different cost of living.”
“You pay a percentage of the increase in your offer—and you owe nothing if we don’t help you improve your offer or if you end up not joining the company.”
“Riva is the first-ever automated job offer negotiations tool. We generate compensation numbers and email scripts for your negotiations process.”
“Riva is a machine learning powered automated negotiator designed to help. We combine the expertise of a team of negotiations professors from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon with machine learning to build a product that automates the negotiations process. A customer uploads his/her offer letter & email correspondence with their recruiter/HR. We aggregate data, generate attributes, and use machine learning to generate a series of emails and phone scripts to respond to their recruiter/HR.”
“Riva is most effective for young and mid-career professionals negotiating a new job offer. If you are an executive your negotiations will likely be much more complicated and we can recommend coaching options.”
“We help you get paid more. Our team of experienced recruiters have helped hundreds evaluate & negotiate higher job offers.”
“Evaluation ($149)—1-on-1 time (30 min one-time session) with a former recruiter to evaluate your offers & market worth backed by our verified offer data. We'll answer any questions you have and discuss negotiation strategies.”
“Negotiation Support ($49+10% of offer increase)—1-on-1 ongoing support with a former recruiter to get you paid more. We start off with a call to understand your upcoming interviews, offers & deadlines. Our negotiation experts then help you at each step of your job search: strategizing negotiations, reviewing offers, understanding your compensation, and crafting personalized talking scripts for conversations. $49 to get started, then you only pay 10% of the first-year increase. Risk-free, full refund if no increase.”
These are the few that I know about and I’d love to add to the list if you know of others, or I’d love to hear about your experience if you’ve used their services! I hope it supports you or someone you know to get paid what you’re worth.