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Worth It: The Salary Negotiation Guide for Women by Bhumika AT — find your number, compare offers and ask for what your work is worth. On Amazon Kindle.
Practice gets you through the typing test. These books help with what comes next: job offers, pay and the first years of a career.
Worth It: The Salary Negotiation Guide for Women
by Bhumika AT · Kindle edition · English
Your first salary isn’t just this year’s pay. It’s the starting point for every raise, bonus and offer after it.
Most salary advice tells women to be more confident and ask for more. But recent research shows women now negotiate about as often as men do, and in some studies more often. They’re just told no more often, and judged for asking. Worth It is a practical, evidence-based guide to negotiating well in the world as it is.
It is written for college graduates with a first offer, early-career professionals and career switchers moving into corporate roles.
What you’ll learn
- Find your number. Research the market, then set three numbers: the least you’ll accept, what you’re aiming for, and what you’ll ask for first. Learn to explain each one in a single sentence.
- Know the whole package. Base salary, bonuses, signing bonuses, stock and benefits, and how to compare offers properly.
- Know your rights. Rules on posted pay ranges and questions about your past salary, with notes on the UK, Canada, the EU, India and Australia.
- Handle the money question early. What to say when a recruiter asks your salary expectations or current pay.
- Ask without backlash. Ways of asking that research shows work better for women, with word-for-word scripts.
- Respond to pushback. Calm replies to “That’s the top of our range,” “We don’t have the budget” and more.
- Keep the gap from growing. Raises, reviews and the “broken rung,” the first promotion to manager where women most often fall behind.
Inside the book
- A library of scripts and 10 ready-to-use email templates
- Worksheets for pay research, setting your numbers and comparing offers side by side
- An offer evaluation checklist and a step-by-step negotiation timeline
- Composite stories based on situations common to many women
- Notes on industries from tech and finance to consulting and the public sector
- A glossary and full source notes
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Why a career book on a typing site?
Many candidates apply for private-sector jobs — data entry, office assistant and corporate roles — while they prepare for government exams. Government pay is fixed by the pay level, but a private offer can often be negotiated.
If you get an offer like that, this book shows you how to work out a fair salary and how to ask for it. Every typing test on TypingAbhyas stays free, as before.
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