Rant: Getting tad annoyed with recruiters asking for current salary. Please help.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Gavin83 wrote: »

Not more but I have seen companies where the staff are paid the same. Some deserve this, some don't. Some people just aren't very good at asking for more money but they're good at their jobs.

This doesn't, in my experience, apply to the kinds of jobs where recruitment agents are involved, and certainly not to the kind of jobs where agents are asking for people's previous salaries.

I can't imagine any professional job where someone could succeed but didn't have the initiative to leave if they were underpaid. If you can't do that, they you don't have the initiative to do much of anything.

TELLIT01

trailingspouse wrote: »

Do you want their help in finding a job or not?

Asking how much you currently earn is a quick way of seeing if the job they have on offer is beneath your dignity or way out of your league. Which saves time for both you, them, and the employer.

They can get that information by asking what your salary expectation is. There is no good reason for them to need to know your current salary.

Comms69

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

There's plenty of people who don't get any more valuable by being sent for training, and plenty who train themselves and don't need the company to invest in it.

Very true, I think we're discussing something where both positions are true.