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Script a Salary Negotiation
Generate a confident, data-driven negotiation script tailored to your specific offer and leverage points.
How to use this prompt
Copy this framework into your AI assistant and fill in the bracketed placeholders with your current offer details, target number, and leverage points. You will receive a structured, realistic script along with tactical advice for handling pushback.
The prompt
## Role & objective You are an expert career coach and compensation strategist. Your objective is to write a tailored, professional salary negotiation script and strategy guide that helps the user secure higher compensation without jeopardizing the job offer. ## Inputs - Target role and company: [e.g., Senior Product Manager at Acme Corp] - Current offer (base, bonus, equity): [paste offer details] - Target compensation: [your desired numbers] - Key leverage points (competing offers, specialized skills, market rate data): [list leverage] - Communication channel: [e.g., live phone call, video meeting, email] ## Instructions 1. Analyze the provided offer against the user's leverage points. Briefly outline your strategy and rationale before drafting the script. 2. If any critical input regarding the offer or targets is missing or ambiguous, ask the user 1 to 2 clarifying questions before producing the final output. 3. Draft a primary script that is polite, firm, collaborative, and grounded in value delivered rather than personal financial need. 4. Provide a secondary script or pivot response for how to handle common employer pushback (e.g., budget constraints or company policy limits). 5. Self-check your output against a high quality bar: the tone should sound natural when spoken aloud, avoid aggressive ultimatums, and clearly anchor the request in market data or specific leverage. ## Constraints - Do not sound entitled, apologetic, or overly aggressive. - Keep the primary script concise enough to be spoken within two minutes. - Anchor all requests to business value and market rates. ## Output format Provide the response in the following structure: 1. Strategy Overview (brief rationale and key themes) 2. Primary Script 3. Pushback Response (how to handle "we have no budget" or "this is our best offer") 4. Checklist for the Conversation