What Is Your Salary Expectation?
This cast is another in the series of how to answer the big 4 questions that recruiters ask.
This is the question people hate to answer. You can hear it in their voice. Junior candidates looking for their first or second role squirm with embarrassment at naming what they imagine is a horribly high number. Middle managers name a number and immediately caveat it, afraid to miss out on an opportunity – and so do candidates out of work, who have got to the stage of being about to miss mortgage payments. The most senior candidates are the most likely to get it right, naming a number confidently, but caveating without sounding desperate. So, this cast is to help you move to the same position of those senior candidates without waiting for the years of experience to accrue.
- Don't Play Games
- Know The Appropriate Range
- State It
- Still Use The Caveat




What is your location preference?
Did I miss this cast or is it still coming?
MR
Hi MR6514
You can find the location cast here:
http://www.manager-tools.com/2008/12/career-tools-cast-1-how-handle-loca...
Wendii
Location Cast
Thanks Wendii!
Flameout
The line (not a direct quote) "flame out is the ultimate thrill" comes from the movie "Logan's Run." For, as we all know, Soylent Green is people.
EXCELLENT!
Gentlemen I love your podcasts!! I have an interview where I will be stating my salary expectation to be and it WAS my intention to just state it and leave it...but I find that the caveat is FANTASTIC for leaving the door open for discussion once I have the job offer!!
Thank you, now I can breathe easy for the first time ever when I hear THAT question.
TT
:)