Scott, Please explaiN!!! lol
I'm serious, I honestly find if I ask for more then they are
offering I have a greater chance of getting an interview, maybe its just they
think "this guy thinks his good, lets bring him in for a laugh" who
knows, now your on the job market try it.
Personally though I wouldn't try it if I was on the market, only try it while
I'm working, kind of interesting to see what a company thinks.
All companies that have agreed to interview (even though I never got the job)
after I've wanted more then they have said they'll give me are companies where
the developer being replaced left because of money issues.
So I guess maybe they think
"if this guy gets exactly what he wants he may never leave and hell its
only $5k more his asking anyway"
or maybe its just they want to have a laugh lol.
Now when I'm contacted and asked how much I'm after I always say the same xx amount,
as it's how much it'll take me for a company to keep me for the next 10years,
and it's not anything above what many CF jobs are already paying.
And I don't believe in telling a company I'd like to work for them for 5 years but really be thinking "if I do a year here I'll be able to leave and get more cash elsewhere" as that's not fair on the employer, especially if they have some weird complex system and want a zero staff turn over rate.
I just found over the years if I said what I thought wasn't that much I'd never get an interview but if I said what I thought was a good offer I'd get an interview.
Most likely it's because the (Large) companies are smart and budgeted x amount and I'm asking that amount (or a little below), so they'd think "well we can afford this guy and his obviously more confident in his skills then joe blogs who's asking for a lot lot less"
How ever some companies try and pay way less then they have
budgeted, I once got offered $24k in an interview, the funny thing was it was
on the 1st of April (not this year),
I honestly thought it must have been an April fool's joke, after a while I thought "Should I be laughing?... hang on this guy might be serious"
This companies excuse was they had a Uni grad willing to work for $24k a year as he was straight out of Uni, all I could think was "this guy is after paid work experience they won't keep him long"
Anyway… I declined the offer and the UNI grad ended up leaving the company a few months later for another job.
That company now pays over double that (obviously learnt there lesson), how ever I wouldn't work for them for a million $'s, I was personally offended by there offer and by them wasting my time.
Anyway if your ever bored and wanting to try out the "more chance of getting an interview asking for heaps then asking for little" theory then feel free to, let me know how it goes, maybe you'll end up asking exactly what they have budgeted for, maybe ask way more and they'll bring you in for a laugh.
M@Who believes avg wage + little perks like big bouncey balls, great team etc are better then bigger wages.
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