Idaho State University’s Anderson Gender Resource Center, in combination with the American Association of University Women (AAUW), will host $tart $mart, a series of workshops for graduating women, in October.
The workshops will give women the skills to negotiate salaries and learn how to deal with behavioral interviewing techniques, which involve in-depth questions that take into account an individual’s past behaviors and experiences in order to determine how he or she might perform on the job.
The behavioral interviewing workshop will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Salmon River Suite of the Pond Student Union Building.
On Friday, Oct. 26, the salary negotiation workshop will be held from 3 to 6:30 p.m. in the same location.
Both workshops will also be available Saturday, Oct. 27, for a special session that runs from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This combination session will also be held in the Salmon River Suite.
A meal will be provided during each workshop.
Registration is required for all attendants. Those interested in participating can register online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/StartSmartFALL2012. Registration closes Friday, Oct. 12.
Graduate students and graduating seniors will be given preference, although others may register if they are interested.
The goal of the behavioral interviewing workshop is to hone women’s interviewing skills. During this workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to practice answering behavioral questions in order to incorporate life experiences into marketable job skills.
In the salary negotiation workshop, women will learn how to “benchmark” reasonable starting salaries for the professions they will be pursuing and negotiate pay to remain competitive with male counterparts.
The Idaho branch of the American Association of University Women has issued a grant to support the program.
Rebecca Morrow, director of the Anderson Center, said she believes these workshops are “critical in helping women negotiate for the wages that they deserve.”
The program was developed as the result of findings showing that, on average, women make roughly 23 cents less for every dollar earned by men.