pet peeve: “what are your salary expectations?” no. tell me how much you’re paying and I will decide whether or not it’s worth my time asking employees to set their own salary is going to disproportionately privilege men
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They're never in genuine good faith. The first party to name a number yields significant negotiation power, and the company is using its already larger power to force the applicant to yield.
Woah what? The opposite is true. Heard of anchoring? The first person to name a number has an advantage of anchoring the conversation in their favour (high for the employee, low for the employer). If employer asks salary expectations, candidate should say a really high number.
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That presumes the candidate knows what's on the table. In a job interview situation, that's practically never true. In order for anchoring to work, you have to pick a number that's high, but at least near the range, or you risk anchoring at "lunatic, back away slowly".
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This is why employers insist on salary secrecy, if it's too easy to discover the range, then this is of course what everyone should do.
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