Monday, February 10
6pm-9pm at the African American Cultural Center, Student Union room 407
Negotiating salaries is a challenge for women at all stages of their careers, as women are less likely than men to ask for what they want. The WAGE Project will conduct a 3 hour workshop that is highly interactive, including a role-playing exercise to enable students to assess how well they understand the principles of salary negotiation presented in the workshop.
$tart $mart Workshop will cover the following topics:
- The personal consequences of the gender wage gap: what a $1.2 million loss over one's working lifetime means.
- Resources for benchmarking reasonable salaries and benefits: learn about job titles, their functions and salary ranges, the impact of market realities on salaries; compare skills and accomplishments to job requirements and market to target a realistic salary range.
- Negotiation: how to aim high and be realistic; practice negotiation through role play exercises.
- Know your bottom line: develop a "bare bones" budget to pay rent, buy groceries, repay student loans, and other basic expenses.
This is a free workshop, but registration is required by 2/7.
Please register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/STARTSMART2014
Sponsored by the Women's Center and the African American Cultural Center
For more information, contact: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu