Guy Is Flabbergasted By This Recruiter’s Audacity In Offering Him A Job For Half The Salary He Currently Earns
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If you’re on LinkedIn, the chances are you’ve received a message or two from a recruiter. But this story shared on the Anti Work subreddit shows what happens when a headhunter is unable to not only match your current salary, but offer even half of it.
“I got a message on LinkedIn asking to apply for a new position,” the Redditor wrote, adding that the position turned out to be similar to what he does now, except it includes “more responsibility” and “more seniority.”
It was time for the money talk. “He said he was delighted to tell me they had just raised the salary bracket in this position to 34-38k a year,” the author recounted. The only problem was that he was making 78k a year, excellent working terms included.
This is when the recruiter reached up his sleeve to come up with convincing arguments he thought would prove his job offer was not to be missed. Let’s see how it turned out below.
Recently, a person shared how this recruiter tried convincing him to take a job offer for less than half of his current salary because he’s ‘overpaid’
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Image credits: LinkedIn Sales Solutions (not the actual photo)
“Recruiters are generally not keen or comfortable offering a lower salary with fewer benefits,” Dawn Moss, the founder of “Your Interview Coach” who has been helping both candidates and hiring managers through the recruitment and selection process since 2013, told Bored Panda.
Moss explained that there has to be a sound reason for taking a lower salary. “For example, a career change, or changing sector, or discipline, or the person has been out of work or has been taking a break.”
Moreover, “when recruiters are ready to offer a candidate, we want that person to be delighted and excited to start with the new company. We want the candidates to feel they are being paid their worth,” Moss told Bored Panda.
She also added that salary is an important factor when looking for a new job. It’s not the only factor, of course. “However, it tends to be high up on the list when people are considering the next move. Generally speaking, it’s acceptable for someone to be looking for an increase on their current salary,” the career coach concluded.
People felt just as flabbergasted about this whole situation, others shared their own similar experiences with recruiters
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I've not experienced this yet in my industry (recently changed careers, don't even read headhunter contacts)... But for almost two decades I was a cook. If you haven't been in the industry... 99% of folks hiring line cooks list it as chef/sous position to improve the applicant pool and think they're a genius for coming up with this scheme. Towards the end of my time in food service, I had chef'ed in multimillion dollar kitchens, managed 20+ people at a time, worked in every environment imaginable, from 1000+ cover shifts to fine dining, etc. I would still REGULARLY show up to interviews for "chef" roles to find out they are for entry level line cook positions paying <$10/hr... Or worse they actually WERE chef positions paying in that range. I'm like, "You saw my resume, I gave you my expected salary... Why waste both our time?"
I was a program manager for software pot projects. I lost track of the number of recruiters that reached out to me for pilot, aka flying planes, jobs. I would point out they should actually read my resume and not just keyword search. Despite this some still contacted weekly for interviews.
Next time just tell them to go ahead and send the resume, see what the company says.
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I wonder if universities offer degrees in soulless occupations that misrepresent and only make money at the expense of their clients. There seem to be a lot of those leaches around.
Don't waste your time. Never reply to recruitiers who spam. Advise them to check glassdoor.com for an eye opening experience of what jobs actually pay in modern times, not post World War II.
If you tell someone "You're being overpaid", aren't you telling him "Don't leave this sweet deal!" ???
No idea what he did, but I make more than that doing data entry. They’re completely out of touch with reality at this point.
My husband was courted by a highly respected contractor - as in they hired a recruiter to get specifically him. They had him travel across the state for five separate interviews, the final one being with the owners. We were pretty excited until they made an absolutely insulting offer. They basically acted like they were too big to say no to despite the c**p offer. That contractor recently went belly up without notice, leaving thousands of employees to go to work one day and find the company was just gone. My husband took action in his current position to save all of the employees in our state that contractor left in the lurch and saved his agency from being in violation of the law from the loss of that contractor. We would have been screwed had they made a decent offer.
And how is this story worthy? This is a daily occurrence on my linked in. I read your profile and I think you would be a great match for... Clearly you didn't read my profile... I am a tech lead / senior dev, getting offered positions for junior dev. They don't bother checking locations. They just want to have their cut. I know work only with one recruiter I have befriended. And I tell everyone off. Best thing ever. I have been called out by people that my wage expectations are too high, yet one recruiter further down the road offered me 200 euro a day extra. I know worth, my skills, i am good at what I do. Treat me like it or f**k off. Blocking more phone numbers and accounts by the day. Or: are you busy? Yes I am. Ok I'll keep it short. Continues rambling on for 5 minutes. Line disconnected. Follow-up email: I think something is wrong, line disconnected and I can't call back. Well, I said I didn't have the time and you didn't respect it... Bye Felicia. I am so sick of recruiters
Do they even take a breath between words or sentences? No, because that would give you an opening and they're not about to let you get a word in edgewise.
Load More Replies... Yeah, but the kicker is when you get job offers from recruiter in other states, that tells you the job is paying $18.00 to $23.00 per hour but you have to have a Master's degree or Bachelor's degree,and you tell them that a manager at McDonald's makes $30 to $31 per hour, plus I live in California where the rent for a one bedroom apartment is $2.500.00 or more per month!!!! And let's not talk about San Francisco at $3.600.00 a month,then you get the India scammers,that don't look at your resume, but tells you they have a client that is hiring,but you go to this clients only to find out that there is no such company or the posting don't exist, so when you get attacked by theses scammers, email them back and tell them to ZOOM call you and you will NEVER hear from them AGAIN!!! ZOOM -ROACH SCAMMERS RAID
Friends wife had a similar circumstance. The hiring managers wanted to know why she turned down the offered salary so quickly; she basically said that it wasn't 1985 anymore and she was worth three times what they were offering.
I've been called for positions like this. Usually I tell them it seems like they need someone less experienced, more junior. That usually ruffles them a bit
I hate to say this but it's rather apparent the recruiter doesn't have all his ducks quacking.
Am I the only person who clicks the reddit link to read the original content from the source on these types of posts?
Short attention span.. cliff notes version.. reddit=rabbit hole. 😅
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I'm at the other end. Recruiter upped the amount of salary, and I got the job. Now I'm freaking out because even though I told them during the interview that I don't have that particular skill level, I've discovered that my work is above my experience. I've been here 5 weeks and keep waiting for them to realise and sack me... Good thing I have a backup job that will keep me going until I find another appropriate job. LOL
@RosyMemeLord Which 'state board'? What did you report them for? For adding more duties to your position? Is that something the state "looks into"?? Genuinely asking, please tell me how to report this because it's happened to me at just about every job I've ever worked.
Anything to do with pharmaceuticals or health care is HIGHLY regulated and everything they were adding to the job falls within the bounds of ' oh poop someone is going to jail" when caught.
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I took a 10k hit on the new job. But I think it was worth it. I was working 10-16 hour days and some weekends and holidays. And the politics, good grief. In that role they actively tried to make the other employee's look bad. And I noticed more and more people were leaving, so I took it as my sign to exit as well.
I've not experienced this yet in my industry (recently changed careers, don't even read headhunter contacts)... But for almost two decades I was a cook. If you haven't been in the industry... 99% of folks hiring line cooks list it as chef/sous position to improve the applicant pool and think they're a genius for coming up with this scheme. Towards the end of my time in food service, I had chef'ed in multimillion dollar kitchens, managed 20+ people at a time, worked in every environment imaginable, from 1000+ cover shifts to fine dining, etc. I would still REGULARLY show up to interviews for "chef" roles to find out they are for entry level line cook positions paying <$10/hr... Or worse they actually WERE chef positions paying in that range. I'm like, "You saw my resume, I gave you my expected salary... Why waste both our time?"
I was a program manager for software pot projects. I lost track of the number of recruiters that reached out to me for pilot, aka flying planes, jobs. I would point out they should actually read my resume and not just keyword search. Despite this some still contacted weekly for interviews.
Next time just tell them to go ahead and send the resume, see what the company says.
Load More Replies... I wonder if universities offer degrees in soulless occupations that misrepresent and only make money at the expense of their clients. There seem to be a lot of those leaches around.
Don't waste your time. Never reply to recruitiers who spam. Advise them to check glassdoor.com for an eye opening experience of what jobs actually pay in modern times, not post World War II.
If you tell someone "You're being overpaid", aren't you telling him "Don't leave this sweet deal!" ???
No idea what he did, but I make more than that doing data entry. They’re completely out of touch with reality at this point.
My husband was courted by a highly respected contractor - as in they hired a recruiter to get specifically him. They had him travel across the state for five separate interviews, the final one being with the owners. We were pretty excited until they made an absolutely insulting offer. They basically acted like they were too big to say no to despite the c**p offer. That contractor recently went belly up without notice, leaving thousands of employees to go to work one day and find the company was just gone. My husband took action in his current position to save all of the employees in our state that contractor left in the lurch and saved his agency from being in violation of the law from the loss of that contractor. We would have been screwed had they made a decent offer.
And how is this story worthy? This is a daily occurrence on my linked in. I read your profile and I think you would be a great match for... Clearly you didn't read my profile... I am a tech lead / senior dev, getting offered positions for junior dev. They don't bother checking locations. They just want to have their cut. I know work only with one recruiter I have befriended. And I tell everyone off. Best thing ever. I have been called out by people that my wage expectations are too high, yet one recruiter further down the road offered me 200 euro a day extra. I know worth, my skills, i am good at what I do. Treat me like it or f**k off. Blocking more phone numbers and accounts by the day. Or: are you busy? Yes I am. Ok I'll keep it short. Continues rambling on for 5 minutes. Line disconnected. Follow-up email: I think something is wrong, line disconnected and I can't call back. Well, I said I didn't have the time and you didn't respect it... Bye Felicia. I am so sick of recruiters
Do they even take a breath between words or sentences? No, because that would give you an opening and they're not about to let you get a word in edgewise.
Load More Replies... Yeah, but the kicker is when you get job offers from recruiter in other states, that tells you the job is paying $18.00 to $23.00 per hour but you have to have a Master's degree or Bachelor's degree,and you tell them that a manager at McDonald's makes $30 to $31 per hour, plus I live in California where the rent for a one bedroom apartment is $2.500.00 or more per month!!!! And let's not talk about San Francisco at $3.600.00 a month,then you get the India scammers,that don't look at your resume, but tells you they have a client that is hiring,but you go to this clients only to find out that there is no such company or the posting don't exist, so when you get attacked by theses scammers, email them back and tell them to ZOOM call you and you will NEVER hear from them AGAIN!!! ZOOM -ROACH SCAMMERS RAID
Friends wife had a similar circumstance. The hiring managers wanted to know why she turned down the offered salary so quickly; she basically said that it wasn't 1985 anymore and she was worth three times what they were offering.
I've been called for positions like this. Usually I tell them it seems like they need someone less experienced, more junior. That usually ruffles them a bit
I hate to say this but it's rather apparent the recruiter doesn't have all his ducks quacking.
Am I the only person who clicks the reddit link to read the original content from the source on these types of posts?
Short attention span.. cliff notes version.. reddit=rabbit hole. 😅
Load More Replies... I'm at the other end. Recruiter upped the amount of salary, and I got the job. Now I'm freaking out because even though I told them during the interview that I don't have that particular skill level, I've discovered that my work is above my experience. I've been here 5 weeks and keep waiting for them to realise and sack me... Good thing I have a backup job that will keep me going until I find another appropriate job. LOL
@RosyMemeLord Which 'state board'? What did you report them for? For adding more duties to your position? Is that something the state "looks into"?? Genuinely asking, please tell me how to report this because it's happened to me at just about every job I've ever worked.
Anything to do with pharmaceuticals or health care is HIGHLY regulated and everything they were adding to the job falls within the bounds of ' oh poop someone is going to jail" when caught.
Load More Replies... I took a 10k hit on the new job. But I think it was worth it. I was working 10-16 hour days and some weekends and holidays. And the politics, good grief. In that role they actively tried to make the other employee's look bad. And I noticed more and more people were leaving, so I took it as my sign to exit as well.
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