Sigh, paywall
Click the web link below the title, then click the story in the google results. Pay wall goes down.
The google trick has worked for me in the past, but it doesn't seem to be working now for this article..
High Salaries Haunt Some Job Hunters
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#12Sigh, paywall
Incognito
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#15This is a surprise, said no one ever.
Sometimes companies will pay for experience but often they'll hire someone younger who screws up more because they cost less.
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#17Sigh, paywall
I copied and pasted the link into a private window (Firefox) and it worked ok, just FYI for anybody that wants to read it like I did. Searching for title and clicking through Google didn't do it for me this time.
Didn't work for me. Neither did the google link thing. Wonder what's going on here. :(
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#18Sigh, paywall
Text: After more than 20 years as an electronics engineer, Pete Edwards reached the low six-figure pay level. Now, as he looks for a job following a layoff, he finds that salary success a burden. Although his experience includes the sought-after field of 3-D printing, the 53-year-old hasn’t been able to land a permanent full-time job. Time and again, he says, employers seem to lose interest after he answers a questio…
thank you!
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#19Finding engineers is soooo hard! There are no good engineers!
And their advice is "take one for the team" because there are managers trying to control costs.
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#20"Time and again, he says, employers seem to lose interest after he answers a question that they ask early on: 'What was your last salary?'"
I never answer that question.
Almost always it's been recruiters asking that (and only some recruiters, the less reputable ones).
This is a seller's market for IT talent. You don't have to give in to bullying tactics to get a good job. I've had to walk away exactly once when a recruiter wouldn't accept that I wasn't going to tell him my previous salary and refused to work with me on that basis. The other recruiters who've asked accepted my refusal to reveal that information. They're generally more interested in getting paid for recruiting you than in finding out what you used to be paid.
I also never reveal the salary I'm looking for and insist on doing my own salary negotiations with the employer. I let the employer make an offer they think is reasonable and go from there.
You do have to be willing to walk away in the handful of times when this leads to an impasse. Fortunately, the way the IT job market is right now, there are plenty of other fish in the pond, and not showing your hand prematurely puts you in a much stronger negotiating position.