A properly prepared job candidate needn't dread or be tripped up by questions about compensation.
Well before you reach the point where an interviewer asks how much you want, formulate upper and lower bounds of your required pay range using separate methods, advises Jane Ashen Turkewitz, founder and president of T & Jam Resume Services and a former executive recruiter.
For the lower end, choose "a number you'd be happy with - and could live on," Turkewitz writes in a recent poston her blog, Let's Talk Turkey. Then, make sure to stick with the range you've chosen. "Don't deviate. If you say your bottom number is $75K and someone offers you $70K, you KNOW you are going to say 'no.'"
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