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> I'm a recruiter. I'm a CTO, for context. > The fact is that many employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone. … I say "I think
by wlll 4y ago
> I'm a recruiter.
I'm a CTO, for context.
> The fact is that many employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone. … I say "I think it will be about $X, but lets put a job ad up and indicate it's top of range $ and see who we get."
As someone pointed out, it sounds like this isn't too hard to do. I've hired people, I've come up with salary ranges. It took some thought, I didn't particularly enjoy the process, but it's possible.
> It is also true that a single job ad might be aiming to employ a number of people at various positions of seniority and experience.
"We're hiring for 10 widget programmers, x senior, y mid, z junior. The salary ranges for these are … and will depend on the skills and experience of the individual candidate"
> It's that easy - if the ad doesn't specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don't get angry, just don't apply.
I've skipped job adverts in the past because the salary wasn't specified. People care about the wage, it's an incredibly important part of what work is, getting paid, it's one of the largest parts of the deal. Pretending that the wage doesn't matter because your company is special, or because people shouldn't be in it for the money is BS that basically everyone can see through and coming to that realisation will allow companies to have a much better understanding of the relationship they have with with their current and future employees.
Or, if the wage is important after all and you just couldn't be bothered to work it out? I guess just put a bit more time in and work it out. Or don't, and be skipped over.
As someone who sometimes hires people, I'd very much prefer it if all the people that applied had already self-selected on something as simple as the red line that is what people will expect to earn. I really don't want to have to trawl through a load of resumes for people, selecting them for interview, doing the first round etc. only to discover that they want n*2 more than we're offering.