You’ve just landed your dream job and can’t wait to start. You’ve negotiated your salary, your title, your benefits, and now it’s just time to negotiate one last thing: your start date.
Yes, you should negotiate your start date.
Too often, I hear about friends packing up their things at one job on a Friday and starting in a new office the following Monday. When I ask why they didn’t take a buffer break in between the two, they tell me: "My new manager really wanted me to start ASAP." "I’m afraid I’ll be behind if I take time off." "I don’t know what I’d do with that time off anyway, so might as well just get started!"
