I’m of two minds. If it’s a crappy recruiter, I open with a ludicrous salary request to compensate for the wasted time - if I get it, I retire 20 years early. If I don’t, no harm done.
In an interview situation, I’d lead them along. Let them get to an offer and then explain that I’m not available to stroke their ego. Waste their time some.
Every recruiter that has called me over the last three years when I tell them my salary requirements, they ask me if I’m serious, and they tell me that there’s no job in the world that would pay me that amount of money, and I’m like, I’m already working a job that pays me that amount of money within a few percentage points.
Why should I take a pay cut to come work for you? And they never have an answer.
More explicitly, I’m making mid-six figures, and they’ll call me up and offer me a job that pays like $60,000 a year, and I say, sorry, if you want me to come work for you, I’m gonna need mid-six figures, plus a little bit extra to make it worth my while, and they realize they have called the wrong person.
And it’s always some dipshit recruiter who is trying to hire me for a starter position in the field that I have 14 years of experience in.
I’m of two minds. If it’s a crappy recruiter, I open with a ludicrous salary request to compensate for the wasted time - if I get it, I retire 20 years early. If I don’t, no harm done.
In an interview situation, I’d lead them along. Let them get to an offer and then explain that I’m not available to stroke their ego. Waste their time some.
Every recruiter that has called me over the last three years when I tell them my salary requirements, they ask me if I’m serious, and they tell me that there’s no job in the world that would pay me that amount of money, and I’m like, I’m already working a job that pays me that amount of money within a few percentage points.
Why should I take a pay cut to come work for you? And they never have an answer.
More explicitly, I’m making mid-six figures, and they’ll call me up and offer me a job that pays like $60,000 a year, and I say, sorry, if you want me to come work for you, I’m gonna need mid-six figures, plus a little bit extra to make it worth my while, and they realize they have called the wrong person.
And it’s always some dipshit recruiter who is trying to hire me for a starter position in the field that I have 14 years of experience in.
There’s a lot of offshore recruiters trying to make a win by spamming for every opportunity that opens.
My number for them for in person office work is 3-4x current gross. It hasn’t worked out for me yet but maybe one day!
To be fair, the reason they expect 60k to be reasonable is that 500k is absolutely not.