What Is Your Salary Expectation?

This cast is another in the series of how to answer the main questions that recruiters ask.

Questions about salary expectations are ones that 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. The purpose of this cast is to help you move to the same position of those senior candidates without waiting for the years of experience to accrue.