The Salary Question
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- Not_Ghey0
You never ask, hint or speak about money at your interview!
- baseline_shift0
Dodge the 'desired salary' question. Try to get them to make you an offer.
- not just salary. dance around all questions. keep em guessin'monNom
- epikore0
Put on a poker face and show your tits
- Horp0
I wouldn't be wasting my time in an interview to begin with if I wasn't already sure that the salary range was acceptable. What' the point of putting yourself and them through the inconvenience only to discover its not enough money?
I would make sure of that crucial piece of data before even opening my diary ffs.
- lvl_130
what baseline said. or if you are currently employed, you can give them a range around that and what it would take to get you to jump ship (if that is indeed what you are doing).
generally i pass it off as "hmm, let me think about that. weigh my options, and get back to you in a couple days. or you could always shoot me a range of what you were thinking as well."
but with the state of the economy i'm not sure any of that will work that great.
- nope. not jumping ship. starting from scratch, sadly.Gucci
- with this economic state, they are gonna try and lowball anyway. better to make the second move than the first in this kind of bargaining situationbaseline_shift
- though I do like your pass off and shoot back strategy.Gucci
- kind of bargainingbaseline_shift
- zarkonite0
"I have a bomb, I request $20mil in unmarked bills to be delivered at this address in 1 hour."
- Horp0
You people are fucking crazy! Don't you knwo that all of these ... erm... 'techniques' you are sharing are so hackneyed and played that it makes you all look like Napolean Dynamite when you drop them from the hip?
Be assertive about your expectations. You are entitled to a salary. If you are not good for them your salary expectations wont matter anyway. If you are right for them, then you have a greater value.
Fuck, do you all take your portfolios along in big envelopes with TOP SECRET printed across the front?
- yes we doNot_Ghey
- your last argument is moot. Of course you are entitled to a salary. But if you go in asking for more than you are worth, it could hurt you.baseline_shift
- could hurt you.baseline_shift
- Oh, okay.
Say, where do you get those, just out of interest?Horp - Baseline: True, but that just mean you need to have a good sense of your worth and the market rate, not justHorp
- throwing out fantasy figures.Horp
- Its true. Thats why i find you get a little more leverage if you ask them to name the first number.baseline_shift
- hey tim, fuck you!
;D
it's about technique and playin' the game.lvl_13
- Not_Ghey0
"Hello my name is Horp, I just want to clear the air before I interview with your firm and show my portfolio. How much are you willing to pay me? I am entitled to salary and good one, so if we are in the same ball park, I will be happy to share with you my award-winning portfolio with you."
- give me lots of moniesepikore
- Just how much would you consider yourself worth...Mr...Horp is it?zenmasterfoo
- twokids0
not_ghey is right. never bring up money until after they want you for the job.
- monospaced0
Ummm, I usually talk about money before I interview also. Horp isn't that off-base with his comments.
- Gucci0
Ahh. This was a good thread. I keep coming back to it to hear some of the advice.
- Gucci0
In Horp's defence, his portfolio is ridonkulous, so he can probably make his own hours and set his own pay. Joes like this guy right here grind shit out.
great stuff, horp.
- Gucci0
Ahh. This was a good thread. I come back to it to hear the advice.
Though... it hasn't really worked out for me just yet.
- jfletcher0
I always want the offer first... then I'll state the money I'd like, or they can offer me money. Regardless, I don't ask until I have the offer. Then I know they want me, so I can leverage that a bit more.
- harlequino0
Frankly, it's the interviewer who should bring the subject up as part of details of the job. Hopefully at that point, they would have already seen your salary/rate history, and no one's wasting anyone's time. But if they don't, it's perfectly reasonable at the end of the interview to ask if they have any salary range in mind for this job. It's not that hard to do so in a pleasant professional way.
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let the recruiter talk moneymonospaced - agreed. it's their job to tell you. they shouldn't be sneaky about it.Antonelli
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- whereRI0
take the higher ground
" well we both have a lot to think about, lets talk about that at our next meeting"
shows you are keen "next meeting", confident "next meeting"- they ARE gonna call you back and arent in it for the money (utter bullturd)anyweigh, shorrie ife had too mush wishkie
- Not_Ghey0
I like Horp's work as well, but that fact remains that he is self-employed, and giving poor advice to a junior designer with not a lot of experience in the interview process.