I think the requested salary amount plays a big role. If a typical 100k annual role was rejected on salary misalignments despite requesting 60k, I would be much more critical of the company.
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gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
What’s infuriating here? You almost never get a reason why you have been declined (if they even answer you). So I find this message pretty nice and polite… Or am I overlooking something?
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was asking for £30,000 a year. I don’t think that’s unreasonable for a professional position.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Holy shit that’s low. I was asking for £35k in 2004 for a technical role. They wanted to pay 17.
teft@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I know you recently moved. Have you considered the pay is lower because the benefits are higher? In the UK they have universal healthcare which means that part of your salary which used to go to healthcare is now not needed. Perhaps that’s why they gave you a lower offer than you’re used to in american wages?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If the pay is lower than £30,000 a year, I can’t get a family visa for my wife and daughter.
Meanwhile, a recruited told me I should be asking for £50,000 a year.
And if you look at how much rents are even in the outskirts of London, I think you will find that low amount of pay is not going to let you have much of a life.
fushuan@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Have you considered the pay is lower because the benefits are higher? In the UK they have universal healthcare which means that part of your salary which used to go to healthcare is now not needed.
Bro I’m not even from the UK I’m from Spain where wages are lower in technical fields and all your “benefits” are the bare minimum any job offers. You then need to offer stuff like remote work, flexible pay, flexible hours, restaurant ticket and more for me to consider a lower wage.
I’m on a technical field and 30k€ would be the bare minimum I would ask for a job after having like 2 years of experience.
Not even trying to negotiate from 30k means they are asking lower than 25k and that’s laughable low for a tech job.
And I’m in Spain, one of the cheapest European countries regarding tech work pay.
4am@lemm.ee 2 days ago
30k a year is like working at Tesco pay, mate
“Junior Video Editor” sounds like it should command a higher price tag than cashiering.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 days ago
That’s a very reasonable salary request
DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I feel like the numbers matter here. I recently moved jobs and the posted salary was the full range for the role. The hiring range is a narrower slice of that range. The range below the hiring target is internal development space. The space above is …well they don’t want to use it. They want a couple years of salary increase to keep you from immediately starting your next job search I think. lol.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They didn’t give a salary range. That was part of the problem. They just asked me what my salary would be. I said £30,000 a year. For a job in fucking London that requires technical experience. Meaning I would have a good 90 minute commute from anywhere I could hope to live.
And that still wasn’t low enough.
dan1101@lemm.ee 3 days ago
They probably want single people that live ten to a flat and can afford to work for 30,000 a year.
Rogue@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s actually insane.
I wonder if they’ve just sent out a generic rejection without checking it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I recently moved jobs and the posted salary was the full range for the role.
The salary range should always be changing with inflation and cost of living. That most likely means that being hired at the lower band of the range means you are going to stay at that part of the hiring range. If not, it means hitting the top end after a few years is a ceiling and you were probably being unpaid the whole time.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I’m was a civil servant. The hiring bands are pretty wide well defined there, at least for technical specialists like yours truly. The 50-60% of max range is considered developmental and would normally be given to an internal candidate who was being groomed as part of a succession plan. 60-80% is the sweet spot, and they will go to 90% for an exceptional candidate. Only once in my career did I negotiate 100% of max - and it was because I was taking a pay cut in the new role. I was changing jurisdictions because I was ( and still am) in love.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
100% this. This is pretty classy. We are typically told to not even contact external candidates. HR will send them the impersonal notice.