{"id":975664,"date":"2025-11-21T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975664"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:10:00","slug":"tech-founder-reveals-how-a-candidate-lost-offer-over-last-minute-salary-push-bargaining-skills-dont-build-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/21\/tech-founder-reveals-how-a-candidate-lost-offer-over-last-minute-salary-push-bargaining-skills-dont-build-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech founder reveals how a candidate lost offer over last-minute salary push: \u2018Bargaining skills don\u2019t build career&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hiring account shared by Gaurav Kheterpal, founder and CEO of Vanshiv Technologies, has gained significant traction online, igniting discussions around workplace professionalism and last-minute salary negotiations. Posting on X, Kheterpal described how a prospective employee\u2014scheduled to join his firm on Monday\u2014emailed just days before onboarding, asking the company to match a competing offer that was \u201cnearly \u20b92 lakh higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kheterpal said his team promptly reiterated that the candidate was free to join on the previously agreed package and clarified that the offer would be withdrawn if he was no longer interested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hiring account shared by Gaurav Kheterpal, founder and CEO of Vanshiv Technologies, has gained significant traction online, igniting discussions around workplace professionalism and last-minute salary negotiations. Posting on X, Kheterpal described how a prospective employee\u2014scheduled to join his firm on Monday\u2014emailed just days before onboarding, asking the company to match a competing offer that was \u201cnearly \u20b92 lakh higher.\u201d Kheterpal said his team promptly reiterated that the candidate was free to join on the previously agreed package and clarified that the offer would be withdrawn if he was no longer interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}