Avoiding Office Politics and Offer Negotiations

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Welcome Back, Harry here!

This is one of the final parts of the initial credit career resources buildout I’ve been working on over the the past year.

Let’s get into 1) Office politics and gossip and 2) Negotiating after getting the job.

This comes from my experience negotiating job offers, but also navigating office politics and gossip from a junior lens.

This post has been a long time coming, and is mainly sparked by the fact that I’m getting really sick of 40-50 year old colleagues/superiors gossiping with me. I really don’t care. I just want to focus on underwriting good deals.

I’ve had this writing in the drafts since early 2023, and what hasn’t changed on the job market side is that we’re not seeing 2021 levels of froth or hiring. People have regularly shared with me that they’re seeing a really strong pool of candidates when conducting searches. Which means until you convince an employer to give you an offer, you as an Analyst/Associate may have lost a lot of negotiating leverage. With that said, there’s still a lot of instances where you want to try to negotiate.

Let’s start with the gossip/office politics/office social skills part first and then get into job offer negotiating.