post #17 - salary transparency

Happy Wednesday 🤎

There's a debate going on about salary transparency and not surprisingly, candidates are for it and recruiters/hiring managers/companies are usually against it. Recruiters and hiring managers like to say things like "if a candidate asks about salary up front, I know that's all they care about". Like wanting to make sure a job can pay your bills is somehow wrong. It's Economics 101.

Look, we all work to pay bills. It would be nice if recruiters and hiring managers could just normalize accepting that instead of trying to spin why salary shouldn't be a candidate's primary concern with things like great benefits and culture. If the salary isn't there, not much else about the job matters.

So recruiters/hiring managers/companies, do everyone a favor and disclose the salary up front. Candidates shouldn't be disqualified because they want to know if the job will pay their bills, and you can avoid them having to ask the question by just being honest from the beginning. Seems like a win/win to me.

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