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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.
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.
All employers will be advertising the lower value ...
Any company that does that will get fewer and lower quality applicants.
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.
You ask me this feature would be a big relief. It is such enormous fun to be made to jump through all the flaming interview hoops only to find out that you are expected to work for a totally unacceptable salary. However, there are other tricks that employers use like offering a flat salary while they retain the option to make you work over time and weekends whenever they want to. At this one place I applied for a job they asked me how well I worked under pressure, I told them I'd finished a Comp Sci degree in the top ten percent of my year, what did they think? Then I asked the HR type: Why do you ask? Will I be spending a lot of time working under pressure? He was not amused. So just some hints for those of you who are just starting out:
1) If they want you to work for a flat salary with no ceiling on working time and promise it will only be the occasional evening and weekend work only in emergencies that is HR speak for: "We are planning to put you on permanent 24/7 standby without paying you extra for it."
2) If anybody ever asks you during a job interview if you work well under pressure that is HR speak for: "We are running our company's operations with a skeleton crew to maximise profits, we are always on the verge of missing deadlines and you can expect to be worked to death"
Also watch out for clauses in the contract that prohibit you from working for anybody else in the industry for N years after quitting at their company. Some employers even add clauses forbidding you to work on any FOSS projects at all. That is bad because FOSS projects are a good way to satisfy the kind of employer that wants you to provide code samples. I'm fine with code samples but I usually don't waste my time on perspective employers who send me math puzzles since I have yet to be offered a job solving math puzzles. One outfit I worked for even tried to get me to sign a new contract that contained a clause so broadly worded that they could have claimed ownership of *any* code I wrote, even on my own time outside of working hours and even if it was unrelated to their business. I'm not going to attribute malice to this, that contract was probably just written by a really incompetent lawyer whose chief qualification was being related to one of the managers but I still refused to sign the damn thing. Now if Linked-in would add a feature that allows me to see shit like this it would make my life even easier than knowing in advance what they are planning to pay me.