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http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/08/15/six-ways-you-lose-when-you-reveal-your-salary-history/#41e93ead16a3


If you have been job-hunting lately, you know that it’s become obnoxiously common for recruiters to ask, “What are you earning now?” or “What did you earn at your last job?” very early in the conversation. They will ask, but you don’t have to give them the number they want. It’s a very bad idea for you to give up your salary details. Is the recruiter going to tell you what the other employees in the department are getting paid, or what the person who last held the open position got paid? No way!

Instead of forking over your salary details, you can say, “In this job search I’m focusing on jobs in the $60K range.” All the recruiter really needs to know is what you are planning to earn in your next job — not what you earned in your last job.

You may want to be agreeable and polite and go along with the recruiter’s rude and unprofessional request for your private financial information. If you give up your salary details, you will have hurt yourself in six powerful ways:

• You’ll have set the wrong tone for the relationship. You’ve just told the recruiter, “You are mighty, and I am weak. Ask me whatever you want!”

• You’ll have made it clear that you’re willing to rely on the generosity of the employer. You are a professional. Does the plumber tell the homeowner what the plumber’s last client paid him? Of course not! The plumber simply tells you his or her hourly rate.




If you have been job-hunting lately, you know that it’s become obnoxiously common for recruiters to ask, “What are you earning now?” or “What did you earn at your last job?” very early in the conversation. They will ask, but you don’t have to give them the number they want. It’s a very bad idea for you to give up your salary details. Is the recruiter going to tell you what the other employees in the department are getting paid, or what the person who last held the open position got paid? No way!

Instead of forking over your salary details, you can say, “In this job search I’m focusing on jobs in the $60K range.” All the recruiter really needs to know is what you are planning to earn in your next job — not what you earned in your last job.


You may want to be agreeable and polite and go along with the recruiter’s rude and unprofessional request for your private financial information. If you give up your salary details, you will have hurt yourself in six powerful ways:

• You’ll have set the wrong tone for the relationship. You’ve just told the recruiter, “You are mighty, and I am weak. Ask me whatever you want!”

• You’ll have made it clear that you’re willing to rely on the generosity of the employer. You are a professional. Does the plumber tell the homeowner what the plumber’s last client paid him? Of course not! The plumber simply tells you his or her hourly rate.

• You’ll have given the employer permission to determine your value price based on your last job. If you were underpaid at your last job, by giving up your salary details you’ll be giving a new employer license to underpay you again. Why would you give someone permission to abuse you?

• You’ll have set yourself up to be subjected to even more salary verification. A funny thing about managers whose fearful desire to see the inside of their job applicants’ bank accounts is gratified is that they are never satisfied. Until somebody holds the line with them, they can start to believe that they not only deserve to know what you earned at your last job, but they also deserve to see six months of payslips and your tax return, too! Stand up for yourself and say, “I’m focusing on $60K jobs. Is that job in that range?”

• You’ll have branded yourself, appropriately or otherwise. You have allowed a completely different employer to set your value, no matter how different this new job opportunity might be.

• You’ll have given up negotiating leverage. When you name your target salary number and let an employer consider you in that light, they can still make you a job offer that’s below your number, but it’s not in their best interest to keep you in their recruiting pipeline if they’re planning to do that. If they did, they could easily waste their time. It’s in their best interest to get the salary discussion out on the table early in the recruiting process if they fear that they can’t afford you. If you give them the number they ask for — your current or most recent salary — you’ve set a low bar for your next employer to exceed. If you’ve got the words “excellent negotiation skills” anywhere on your resume, you can prove it by negotiating on your own behalf!

The world is changing fast. If it’s already illegal to ask a job-seeker for their past salary information in the state of Massachusetts — which it will be when a newly signed law goes into effect in 2018 — why would employers or recruiters anywhere want to engage in that predatory and impolite practice? Find your voice and your backbone and give recruiters what they need (your salary target) the next time you’re asked, “What are you earning now?”

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mr2kay:
Does it mean that none of you all above me saw the dwarf at the first pic?
I see you scrolling up to check

He is not a dwarf. He is a photographer. Look well and you ll see him kneeling

I think Seun and his MODs need to do something about it

The platform is becoming one of the most divisive platform around.

Most things peddled here about our culture and lifestyle are not true.

immortalvoices:
Can we please quit the name checking stuff for once it's getting stale...

Those who engaged in this disgusting stuff are no better than Russian hooligans

Are no different from the northern terrorist

And to think that among them are fathers and mothers

Smh focus your mind on things ahead not getting the little satisfaction of being a nairaland warrior

tuniski:
The govt is clueless! They condemned and maligned previous admin but, suddenly, they will be pumping meager 350bn into non existent work in progress of the so called 'destroyers' of nigeria.

Shame on the govt and bigger shame on those clapping for this somersault by buhari/apc they remain a poor copy of those they condemned!

See guy, there is something about policy somersault or inconsistency that you people dont understand.It distorts the entire system
and drives investors away by miles.

Would you rather they dump everything the last government did and develop their own from the scratch?

For how long are we going to continue to abandon projects started by one regime just because we dont like their faces. Why
do you think there are several abandoned projects all over the country.

While they may have maligned previous admin.it still does not mean they cannot continue the good projects that were in place
before they came on board.

9,000MT for how many farmers. We need to improve on the average of 13kg/Hec to the recommended 200kg/hec in Nigeria
While I commend the effort of the government at this, they need to do more. And over time, they need to hands off from this
kind of scheme because that distorts the market. These schemes are not sustainable in the long run. The private sector should be
allowed to run the show while the government provides infrastructure.

Finally, most of the beneficiaries of this subsidy are in the urban or peri-urban areas while the really poor Small holder farmers
who are in the rural area/hinterlands cant get them. And again, the fertilizer goes to political loyalists.

How we do we stop our extreme dependence on the dollars. Everybody in this country does one thing or the other with dollar, most are racketeering. How do we move away from thid

I ve got am interesting story here

I moved from financial sector to development consulting.

It's a long long story but really interesting

sholexy21:
tnx op.... but is that really possible except u are driving a motor not a car

Ok so it's not about the car. In my own case, I forgot to close the bonnet properly and was on high speed when I noticed. Before I could say jack, it was a loud noise I heard. The screen was shattered and the bonnet destroyed. It was terrible.

The temperature is 20 degrees this morning. It's really cold here and just to corroborate someone's story about some snow fall here yesterday.

How do these people survive and to think some kilometers away, somewhere after Saminaka is 38 degrees.

Can boys just go find something else to do

Stelvin101:
Federal government are the ones making this economy bad. They said dollar is scarce in the international trade and yet they don't allow raw dollar into the economy such as western union and moneygram transactions. Now ask yourself this question. Do we really have a functioning government?

I believe government should reverse that decision and you will see how little that decision can change things. 80% of dollar coming into this country is through western union and moneygram. What is this government really doing? If there is excess dollars in Banks our Naira value to a dollar will increase. Another method to increase the state of our currency purchasing power is through increase in productivity in Nigeria but the thing is, ordinary toothpicks and toothbrush. In this world today you have to be productive else you are doom no matter how rich on Natural resources a country is.

Western union and money gram are still been collected in Nigeria just that it has to be in naira and not dollars which is the perfect thing to do otherwise where will the dollar come from- heaven? NO
The dollars will still come from the small we have

Where is the car

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snailspeed:
All this joke comments you make is good for AY show. What has Buhari ever managed in his whole life? He can't even improve his personal knowledge after 30 years and calls Germany, western Germany. Is he not the same president that presented a corruption laden budget to settle his party cronies you are saying would have managed us well? The same one that is so incompetent that a national budget just got so messed up and the country ridiculed before the whole world? The same Buhari that hasn't even improved one thing since he came on and has continued to make a mockery of governance and leadership? No wonder he has to try to use a fake anti corruption fight to divert attention.

The man is there now and is a theatre of comedies. You don't need to throw any assumption or conjecture. His leadership skills are already on display and it is a tale of woes. A calamity. The lowest point this country has ever sunk. Look at his economic team. Is this the team that would have saved this country? This accounting 101 finance minister and her band of Dundee's? I will like to have some of that thing you are having...

No vex abeg, please forgive whatever PMB has done to you.

we need to keep this thread sane and lets see what can come out of it

Bitterness is not good for the heart

Abeg, no vex

Please let us not derail this thread

Avoid it if you dont have any intelligent contribution

patriotic007:
buhari is drawing too many battle lines.....ND will be d one dat will hook his throat

which throat are you talking about

See ehn, my people say.

One person can cook food for a crowd, the crowd will finish it
but when the crowd cooks for one person, the person can never finish it

Dont you ever under estimate what Buhari and FG can do, please dont
And I tell you, nothing will happen thereafter. We will only but wail

Meanwhile, let me see if I have anyone left in Warri

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genxris:
Here is proof Thomas


http://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/pdfs/2016/2016AppropriationBill.pdf

This is the reason PDP lost the last time. You guys are so foolish
You are not smart at all.

If you will attack, please use your brain and let us support you. Dont throw stuffs into
the air and expect people to buy when you dont have any substance.


I have searched and cant find anything that says Presidency feeding or anything related
There is no detailed breakdown in this PDF or is it your imaginations?
I am also waiting earnestly for the detailed breakdown but in the meantime, we take some
chill pills.

how much

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Omexonomy: One common sh1t among these poster so far is tha they are all from southwest.
I am from middle belt
why the hatred
I recieved my lectures in one school and wrote my exam in another school because the school and cause i went for were not accredited.
Which school will write on my C .V.

Are you always like this.

I guess we should bow to tribal sentiments at the expense of our peace and development. Soon your likes would
be given a portfolio and would continue like this.

Are we talking of your WAEC here? my friend better go and read for your JAMB, this place is not for kids.

I tire for this news papers oo. Before!!! what do you want her to say. That she will move. Abegi

You guys want to pour sand in her garri.lol

It is a shame what young people do with their brain. Someone has posted some fascinating findings and
all you have to say are these gibberish on front page. Even if you are not an IT person or whatever or
you dont have internet to view the pages, cant you just pass.
No wonder they say some race have very low IQ.

wesley80: Great move by the FG. Smarter people can see through ASUU. Why didnt Fagge and his thieving crew demand for salaries they didnt work for while they were negotiating with the President? Why have they now included it as amandatory condition before the strike is called off? Isnt it obvious that the other conditions are mere covers for their greedy agenda of receiving money they didnt work for? Whoever heard of labour leaders being victimized by the govt? If the NLC and TUC leaders have not faced victimization despite theirnumerous strike actions what on earth is ASUU guardin against? What if the AG signs the agreement, would that stop the govt from reneging if they want to? These are mere smokescreens, what ASUU really want is the 5 months salary they didnt work for period!
greedy oaves

omo, your madness has no bearing.