Negotiating Your Next Job Offer, with Marcia Torres
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
Mac Prichard
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Negotiating a job offer shapes far more than your first day on the job. On this week’s episode of Find Your Dream Job, HR expert Marcia Torres shares why your starting salary influences future raises, bonuses, and long-term earning potential — and why employers expect candidates to ask questions, review their offers carefully, and advocate for what they need. Marcia also talks about the value of taking 24 hours to read through an offer, getting clear on your bottom line, and using reliable salary data to understand where you should land in a range.
She then walks through what candidates can negotiate beyond base pay, including job titles, professional development funds, PTO, and other benefits that make up a full compensation package. Marcia offers practical, down-to-earth guidance on how to approach these conversations collaboratively, build rapport with recruiters, and make a thoughtful decision about your next role.
About Our Guest:
- Marcia Torres is the founder of Imagen Talent Solutions.
Resources in This Episode:
- Connect with Marcia on LinkedIn
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| 0:00.0 | This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. |
| 0:25.3 | It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career. |
| 0:31.5 | Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. |
| 0:33.9 | An employer wants to hire you. |
| 0:35.5 | Congratulations. |
| 0:40.9 | Now it's time to close the deal. Marcia Torres is here to talk about negotiating your next job offer. She's the founder of Amin Talent Solutions. It's a consulting firm |
| 0:48.6 | reimagining HR and talent strategy for startups, nonprofits, and growing businesses. And she joins us from Portland, |
| 0:57.0 | Oregon. Well, let's jump right into it. Marcia, why is it important to negotiate, especially your |
| 1:02.8 | salary, when you get a job offer? You know, the biggest reason is that it follows you for years, |
| 1:08.0 | right? The minute you start with an offer or a salary, that will follow |
| 1:15.1 | you into your progression of your career. So raises, bonuses, all those future job offers are |
| 1:22.6 | calculated based on your current pay. So depending on where you start, if you start lower, then you aren't able to move and progress |
| 1:31.1 | as quickly as maybe others that have negotiated. |
| 1:33.7 | So that's why it's important that you start negotiating early on your salary and your career. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, and I've seen some studies that negotiating your salary can actually increase like your long-term earning potential between like $500K to a million in a lifetime. |
| 1:52.3 | So, right, it's just starting even if this is $1,000 the first time and $2,000 the next time, the little bit that you're doing as you're progressing through does make a big |
| 2:01.5 | difference for you and building that generational wealth for you and your families. |
| 2:05.6 | And that's because once you start the position, most employers, unless there's a big change in |
| 2:11.9 | responsibility, you're going to be looking at incremental races every year, aren't you? |
| 2:16.6 | Exactly, right? |
| 2:23.9 | So depending on the organization or depending on if you're working for a nonprofit or if you're working for the government type of rules, they all have their own type of annual increases, |
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