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Workshop prepares students ■ The 2000 Career Expo offers students the chance to learn the importance of negotiating good benefit packages By Brian Goodell Oregon Daily Emerald OK, so you’re not Akili Smith. You don’t have a super agent negotiating your multi million dollar contract. But you have just been offered an in credible job, and your employer wants to negotiate your salary and benefits package. What do you do? Students gathered in the EMU Rogue Room Friday afternoon for Negotiating Salaries and Ben efits, a workshop segment of the 2000 Career Expo sponsored by the University Career Center. The panel included Linda King, University human resources di rector and Karen Gardner, hu man resource director for Look ing Glass Youth and Family Services. The panel gave advice on negotiating everything from salaries to 401k retirement plans to death and dismemberment coverage. “When you walk into a room and the recruiter asks what you want, students will want to speak intelligently about their salary and I benefits package,” Career Center Assistant Director Clarice Wilsey said. “Most employers Torrey continued from page 1A gan the meeting by reading an address that announced the Eu gene anarchists’ plan to launch an “independent campaign.” The EAT campaign, or “Eugene An archists for Torrey” is aimed at the re-election of Torrey. In the address, the group vowed to do “whatever is necessary to ensure victory for Torrey in November.” This includes wire tapping oppo nents, a smear campaign and the use of damaging rumors and propaganda, either true or manu factured. After presenting their address, the members of EAT began reading their goals and demands that would help ensure the may or’s victory. Their demands in cluded the removal of Eugene Chief of Police Jim Hill for “someone who looks more like a dictator.” Cookie Dow added, “Jim Hill looks too nice, dresses too nice and is too nice; you should hire Norm Stamper [ex Seattle Police Chief] Other goals were the imposing of mar tial law and the offering up of Eugene to the WTO. However, the EAT campaign ran into a bit of a road block when Torrey refused to answer or want to see you have some input on salary and basic coverage and be able to document why you should be paid on the upper-end of the scale rather than the lower end of the scale.” According to King, about 25-40 percent of the money that compa nies use to pay for their employ ees is tied up in benefits. So, if a person negotiates a $30,000 salary, the employeeas actually negotiating a $40,000 total bene fits and salary package. “Benefit programs have been quite rich,” King said. “In this time with the cost of health care and the fact that we never know what’s going to happen to social security, it’s really important to negotiate some type of coverage.” Gardner stressed that employ ees can be much better situated to negotiate salary and benefits after they have worked for the or ganization for a while. “When you’ve proven what wonderful things you can do for your organizations, you’ll be in a lot better position to negotiate salary and benefits,” Gardner said. “The farther along you are in your career, the more leverage you have to negotiate.” When that dream job is finally at hand, King and Gardner im pressed upon those gathered that it’s important to have a good un derstanding what the industry standards are for the position they are negotiating and what comment on any of what EAT had proposed. In the midst of EAT’s attempts to rouse the may or into dialogue, another faction of Eugene anarchists, a group calling themselves EAT Me, took the opportunity to announce their platform to the mayor. The group presented its own list of demands, including the preservation of the downtown mall and the removal of large corporations from Eugene. This began a debate between the two groups as to who were the “au thentic anarchists, and who were just wannabes.” This quickly disintegrated into bick ering between the two groups, with Rotten calling the EAT Me campaign “Whinny, wimpy re formists.” Rotten then pointed out the their campaign was not to make Torrey look good by encouraging reform but to disillusion voters and to keep the face of authoritar ianism in place. He also said that discouraging voters and high lighting the inferior government was a way of promoting anar chism in Eugene by making vot ers realize that government does not work. When Torrey refused to engage in dialogue both groups of anar chists went on trying to elicit a Some tips from the experts One must be abie to justify a high er salary and benefits package. It’s important to have some type of health and dental coverage. It’s never too earty to start saving for retirement. Vacation ratesare usually not ne gotiable. Salaried employees have a lot more room to negotiate. Let the employer come up with the first offer. SOU RCt: 2000 Career expo their own needs are to maintain their quality of life. “They should know what they require as an income to meet their expectations, Gardner said. “They should have a good under standing of what the going salary is for the job they are applying for. They can find that out by comparing similar salaries in the classified ads, at the Career Cen ter or on the Internet.” King emphasized that it can be inappropriate to begin negotia tions before getting a job offer. “Don’t start negotiating until you know you’re the selected candidate,” King said. “To do it earlier could get you out of the process. You want them to want you.” response, at one point trying to goad he mayor into blinking re sponses. “One blink for no, two for yes!” yelled an unidentified member of the group. This visi bly angered the mayor, yet he still didn’t respond. The anarchists then decided to engage in a game of musical chairs. This elicited a responses from the police officers sur rounding the mayor, who vocal ly instructed the anarchists to leave. The anarchists then joined together in the Torrey “fight song,” a reworked version of the Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the U.K.” Near the end of the meeting, Dow removed his hat and of fered to shake the mayor’s hand. 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