On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Chris Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Brian J. Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > You keep coming back to the premise that employers aren't willing to > pay people what they are worth. In my experience at a couple of > companies, I've never really seen management try to negotiate people > down from the salary they are used to making at their previous job. > In fact, most people move up in salary by moving companies. >
Personally, (fwiw to the group), as a professional recruiter, I will not work for a company whose business philosophy justified negotiating people down below previous salary. That's sweat-shop talk. Not cool and not honest. I believe the right person will be ready for the right job at the right pay. A little too idealistic? Yeah, but I have to try and recruit engineers all day.... give me a break :) > > I think you're generalizing and reading way too much into BOE in job > listings. I think you're missing out on some great potential > employers out there. True. I know other lists (the PLUG, for example) will openly ask questions about certain companies. Often other people in the UG are actually employees and will tell you publicly or off-list the straight stuff on the company. If they're a bad actor? just wait for the lambasting to begin. > Frequently, we will do a phone call to screen the candidate before an > interview and may talk salary expectations there to see if there is a > fit. If we're interested in a candidate, we always talk salary in the > first interview. If we're not interested in the candidate, we'll skip > it to shorten the interview. +1 > > Candidates should be more than comfortable to ask about salary, > benefits, etc, if the employer doesn't mention it in the first > interview. +1 _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
