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"Previous job salary" has (or should have) little to no bearing on "current job salary" regardless of gender. In fact, there is only a relationship as long as a
by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
"Previous job salary" has (or should have) little to no bearing on "current job salary" regardless of gender. In fact, there is only a relationship as long as a candidate employee allows it.
It is not at all the business of a potential new employer what their potential new employees' current salaries are. The only reason for an employer to ask for such information is to reduce the compensation offer for a new employee.
- joeclark77 12y agoJust because you don't think it should matter, doesn't mean nobody else thinks it matters. At the very least, it matters when trying to recruit somebody away from an existing job, doesn't it? If you want to hire someone, and he's getting X salary, you're generally going to have to offer more than X.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoYes, I understand that others think it matters; I never implied otherwise. Aside from that, it matters not one bit what "X" is, except in the circumstance where an employer wishes to gauge whether he can offer less than he's prepared to.
- joeclark77 12y agoEvery rational human being at all times should be gauging whether they can get more for less. You're imagining sinister motives where there's no need for them. If your second best offer is, let's say 75k, why would the hiring manager offer you 100k when he could get you for 85 and you'd be happy? Just because "he's prepared to" pay 100? I'm "prepared to" pay $4 a gallon for gas, but I'm not going to offer it if the gas station will take $3.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoI never described the motivation as being "sinister." I simply described the situation as it is, which you apparently are in agreement with, but for some reason believe I am attaching negative connotations to.