How would you counter offer a job proposal
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it's interesting that some here seem to feel that a new employer should limit what they pay you based upon what you made at the previous employer.
I think a lot of that comes from bad agencies. I applied for a job one time and it was posted by a staffing agent and they made me fill in my current salary. He told me he wasn't even going to send in the application because I wasn't currently making enough and they would "never consider me." So I applied at another job, my current one, where I make more money.
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@stacksofplates said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
it's interesting that some here seem to feel that a new employer should limit what they pay you based upon what you made at the previous employer.
I think a lot of that comes from bad agencies. I applied for a job one time and it was posted by a staffing agent and they made me fill in my current salary. He told me he wasn't even going to send in the application because I wasn't currently making enough and they would "never consider me." So I applied at another job, my current one, where I make more money.
It's weird, but I have heard of that happening. The way it was explained to me was that if you don't consider yourself worth that higher level of pay, then you're probably not good enough for the job opening we have. And even if your skills are good enough, you don't have enough confidence to get a job that pays what you're really worth.
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@stacksofplates said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
it's interesting that some here seem to feel that a new employer should limit what they pay you based upon what you made at the previous employer.
I think a lot of that comes from bad agencies. I applied for a job one time and it was posted by a staffing agent and they made me fill in my current salary. He told me he wasn't even going to send in the application because I wasn't currently making enough and they would "never consider me." So I applied at another job, my current one, where I make more money.
Talk about a horrible placement agency, I would've been tempted to write the company they were supposed to be hiring for saying "The company you're paying to vet employees doesn't have a clue."
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I've probably had my application thrown in the trash several times, because I'm not going to tell you what I'm making. If you like my resume, bring me in for an interview. If you like me, then we can talk how much you are going to pay me.
But I'm not going to tell you how much I'm making at my current job.
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I've had the opposite. Had a staffing agency call me a liar for saying that I made more than "anyone pays." Totally by coincidence, that agency was forced to pick up my current contract and pay me what they claimed I could not be paid.
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@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
I've had the opposite. Had a staffing agency call me a liar for saying that I made more than "anyone pays." Totally by coincidence, that agency was forced to pick up my current contract and pay me what they claimed I could not be paid.
EPIC Win, lol.
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@dafyre said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
I've had the opposite. Had a staffing agency call me a liar for saying that I made more than "anyone pays." Totally by coincidence, that agency was forced to pick up my current contract and pay me what they claimed I could not be paid.
EPIC Win, lol.
Yeah, it was pretty funny. I was like "remember me"?
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@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@dafyre said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
I've had the opposite. Had a staffing agency call me a liar for saying that I made more than "anyone pays." Totally by coincidence, that agency was forced to pick up my current contract and pay me what they claimed I could not be paid.
EPIC Win, lol.
Yeah, it was pretty funny. I was like "remember me"?
Scott did the whole Independence Day thing - I'm Baccccccck!
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@Dashrender said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@John-Nicholson said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@Jimmy9008 said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
In the states, can new employers see what you made in previous jobs?
No, only if you disclose it.
I have seem a request for a current pay stub to prove your work history for a background check as a weird way around this. Seemed silly to me.
Not sure I'd be willing to work at that place - shows a HUGE amount of distrust. The previous/current employer should be willing to at least confirm that you were employed there.
it's interesting that some here seem to feel that a new employer should limit what they pay you based upon what you made at the previous employer. When I was new to IT, I made several huge jumps in salary. 50%, 40%, 35% increases over the last few. An internal promotion would almost certainly never provided those kinds of increases.
Deepends. I went from something like 56 --> 70 ---> 100 in the span of less than 18 months as I moved provisionally into a management role, then formally into it.
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@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
I've had the opposite. Had a staffing agency call me a liar for saying that I made more than "anyone pays." Totally by coincidence, that agency was forced to pick up my current contract and pay me what they claimed I could not be paid.
It's funny when both sides of a staffing agencies negotiation gets exposed. I've seen them lie and say the candidate was demanding more, while simultaneously telling the candidate that they needed to cut their expectations and the company wasn't willing to pay more. The agency got screwed in this as the hiring manager and contractor were drinking buddies.
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@John-Nicholson said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@Dashrender said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@John-Nicholson said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@scottalanmiller said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
@Jimmy9008 said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:
In the states, can new employers see what you made in previous jobs?
No, only if you disclose it.
I have seem a request for a current pay stub to prove your work history for a background check as a weird way around this. Seemed silly to me.
Not sure I'd be willing to work at that place - shows a HUGE amount of distrust. The previous/current employer should be willing to at least confirm that you were employed there.
it's interesting that some here seem to feel that a new employer should limit what they pay you based upon what you made at the previous employer. When I was new to IT, I made several huge jumps in salary. 50%, 40%, 35% increases over the last few. An internal promotion would almost certainly never provided those kinds of increases.
Deepends. I went from something like 56 --> 70 ---> 100 in the span of less than 18 months as I moved provisionally into a management role, then formally into it.
Was all of that inside the same company? or 56 company 1 -> 70 company 2 (provisional management) -> 100 company 2 (formally management)?
But again, what does having your paystub from a past employer have to do with anything?
