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Discussion on: Salary Negotiation for People That Hate To Negotiate with Josh Puetz

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

Never give the first number is the same kind of dogmatic business advice you hear to never apologize. I'm in Canada so its a very different business culture from the US. Negotiation in the form would be seen as haggling and there is a different way to go about up here.

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Josh Puetz

I'm really interested the @andrew : can you elaborate more? Is negotiating a starting salary not common in Canada?

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I don't wish to offend you, so we'll leave it at that. 🙏