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Subject:Re: How do you respond to job ads? From:JGREY <JGREY -at- MADE2MANAGE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:30:20 -0500
Leonard Porrello writ:
>>I like your idea of not submitting salary information. But I am
curious about what you say to get around the request. Please tell.<<
I write something like this:
"Your ad asked for my [salary history/salary requirements]. I prefer not
to share that information this soon. After we've had a chance to
establish mutual interest, I'll be happy to discuss salary with you."
I imagine this turns some employers off. My company's boilerplate job
ad includes a blurb about sharing salary requirements. I know how *I*
react when someone writes something like this: "No problem."
Same goes when someone doesn't want to send me samples with the resume.
I do understand that some work is proprietary, that some people prefer
to show samples in person, and so on. A plainly worded explanation
covers it for me.
Peace,
jim
jim grey \ Documentation Manager
Made2Manage Systems, Inc. \ jgrey -at- made2manage -dot- com
