For me, as an employer, I use the information for two purposes. First, it gives me an idea of what the applicant is expecting. If my budget is $45K, $55K, $65K or whatever, why waste the candidate's time or my time interviewing someone who is currently making $80K to $100K+? It doesn't matter the cost of living adjustment, very few programmers would take a 20-60% cut in salary even if the cost of living is 50% cheaper.
Second, it gives a better indication as to how much work they really did for a company. 3 years @ $40000 per year or $4000 per year is easier to quantify than 3 year by itself. For example, my family owns business and I can add the following to my resume: CIO Fanie International, 30+ years. It looks great on a resume, calling the company you can easily confirm. But what it does not state is that I do this on the side and I just get a small commission of a few hundred bucks a month for web orders. Lastly, I only use this as a very small portion of a much bigger criteria (except when the salary history tells me there is no chance in hell that this person will accept a salary within our budget). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:3455 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11
