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fstban
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Salary confusion |
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I've got an interview coming up soon and I don't know how to handle the inevitable salary question.
I'm quite underpaid in my current job and it doesn't very well reflect the experience and knowledge that I have. My current salary was asked in the application form but I just left it blank. And to make matters even more confusing, the job I have gone for didn't even specify the salary they were offering... it just said 'competitive'.
I don't know whether to be honest about my current salary and risk looking like I'm under-experienced, or exaggerate my salary and risk them thinking they can't afford me.
I've foolishly got my heart set on getting the job and I really don't want to muck it up. |
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Mark McCormick
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Joined: 24 May 2008
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Hi fstban,
One thing you could do is not to give the exact number for your salary and instead state a range. For instance, if you make $32,000 a year, state you make between $30,000 to $40,000. This will give you a little more cushion. Also, when they ask you about what salary you made or what you expect to make, it is ok to ask them what range this job normally pays.
Best,
Mark McCormick
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Randy
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Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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Location: Vinton, VA
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This, as is all the other aspects of the hiring process, a crap-shoot at best. You're dealing with purely capricious and arbirtrary individuals, each of whom differs from the others in what he/she wants, expects, demands, how they play this childish game of theirs.
I went for years and years shying away from the pay issue. Now, that amount is on the resume and when the application asks for it, it's there as well. At the very least I've saved myself the agony of wasted time at interviews which end with "Gee, you're perfect but we just can't afford to pay you that...."
A rather arrogant, pompous employer once told me: "Why should I pay a man a diime if he'll work for a nickel?"
Well, if you want, need, demand, and are worth that dime, then tell them! |
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