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LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them (adweek.com)
LinkedIn just introduced a way to help its members avoid going through the interview process for jobs with salaries that do not meet their expectations. From a report: The professional network announced the rollout of Salary Insights, which will add estimated or expected salary ranges to open roles, getting the numbers either through salary ranges provided by employers or estimated ranges from data submitted by members. The feature will launch "in the coming weeks." Salary Insights marks the next step after LinkedIn Salary, which the professional network launched in November 2016 to provide its users with information on salaries, bonuses and equity data for specific job titles, as well as factors that impact those salaries, including experience, industry, company size, location and education level.
Not in Romania, they won't.
Employers never, ever post salary ranges, and employees are forbidden from telling them, or they can be fired.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Is the salary automatically adjusted or do women have to apply a factor themselves?
This could be a pretty big change for LinkedIn. I forsee more people using it. I also think it could make corporations be wary and start using other services.
Missing feature: Add a reporting system and reputation score for employers who offer significantly below market wages. I.e.: if I apply for a security engineer position advertised paying an average of X as per market data and once I've been through the interview process the employer offers X * 0.7 and isn't willing to negotiate further, I should be able to report that employer and there should be some kind of visibility so that other employees don't waste their time with said employer.
I don't think so: I have 0 intentions of publishing my salaries on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn Users Will Soon Know What Jobs Pay Before Applying for Them
That's nice but what pisses me off the most about job interviews is not that, its being asked to a job interview and having a conversation something akin to the following:
.NET ... it seems your skill profile is incompatible with our requirements.
Interviewer: We are looking to replace Bob who left us recently. We are looking for a somebody who know <long list of APIs> and has recently worked on <insanely specific project description>, we really need a close fit on this.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: So, do you know Microsoft
Me: No, if I did it would say so in my CV.
Interviewer: Do you have any Microsoft programming experience.
Me: No, if I had it would say so in my CV, in fact it says in my CV I have 10 years of Linux system programming experienece in C/C++.
Interviewer: Well I must say I'm rather disappointed, why did you even apply here?
Me: I was sent here by the person at the recruiting office who told me you wanted to interview me for a job because my CV matched what you were looking for.
Interviewer: Well,
Me: No shit stupid, **which my the common sense processor in my brain modifies to: This is true**.
Interviewer: Looks at his laptop screen and types something.
Me: Can I ask you something?
Interviewer: Sure, shoot?
Me: Did you even read my CV?
Interviewer: Scowls and does not answer.
The sharing of information is going to benefit employers and not prospective employees. All employers will be advertising the lower value, then during negotiation will increase the salary slightly. You won't see employers advertising the maximum they are willing to pay then negotiating down.
The end result? We'll see a trend of tech salaries moving lower.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Glassdoor already has a big jump on this information, it will be hard for LinkedIn to catch up. In an unrelated story, Microsoft has been screwing up LinkedIn since they bought it, I'm not using LinkedIn to tell business connections "Happy Birthday" or to track celebrity news.
Or the usual, which goes something like this–– .8X plus $Y in variable comp (a.k.a. bonus) and we've paid out variable comp for the last eight quarters, so it's better than what you're making now. .8X or even for 1X I'll just stay where I am, thanks.
HR droid: Okay you're making X now. We can offer
Me: No, I make X now and I get variable comp too on top of that. Salary is salary, variable comp is variable comp. Eight out of eight quarters is nice. Do you want to put a guarantee in writing about the next eight, ten, or twenty quarters.
HR droid: Er, no.
Me: I thought not. Also I'm trying advance, so for
Glassdoor offers this same facility. Of the jobs that do provide a salary, most are estimated. When you request the salary range from the job's poster, it seems you never get an update.
If LI is going to roll this out, they should REQUIRE that posters provide a salary range. And, when people interview and are told what the job really pays, those individuals should be permitted to report the real salary. If there is a major discrepancy after multiple updates by interviewees, flag the original job posting as MISLEADING.
I feel that Glassdoor should do the same.
Just my $0.02 worth
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Wouldn't this just make employers leave LinkedIn, so that applicants can't know what the expected salary is so they can low-ball ?
If a company post the salary, it is good.
If a company does not post the salary, it is because they do not want people to know it is low.
I just looked at that LI tool and it's pretty sparsely populated. Most of the queries I threw at it had "$0" listed as the going salary. I'm sure it'll get better but for now it's not even as "good" as the salary estimates you get from Glassdoor.
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Wait... LinkedIn is for jobs? I always thought it was a game where you have to hit "Accept" for people you know and like, and "Ignore" for the thousands of foreigners you've never met.
Mine definitely doesn't know if they want a NCG (new college grad) or a senior engineer. They interview people for almost any level. Inters go through a intern program for their interviews because they are temporary.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire