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
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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.
However, the mayor refused to
get up or even respond. Rotten
and Dow then took one more op
portunity to plea their cause to
the mayor.
“We just want to reiterate that
this is a serious campaign.” Rot
ten said. “Some members of the
media have called us tongue-in
cheek, but we want to assure you
that we are not.”
With this, Rotten proceeded to
kiss Dow on the mouth. Looking
angered and disgusted, the may
or left the room, escorted by po
lice.
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