Left dotMobi a few weeks back just after the DeviceAtlas project was successfully launched; took about three weeks to sleep (14-hour days for far too long to make the release date) and then starting back into the search for the next role. It was an interesting few weeks, and something I mentioned earlier about how “passion” is being seen as the new black when listing off what’s required of a new hire in a job ad really did come to bug me during this interval, so I thought that I’d blog about it when it was over.
Ladies and gentlefolk of HR who write these job adverts, might I make a few suggestions to you?
A job ad without salary information is like a CV without a name on it.
I will not read such an ad. I filter them out right at the search page. It’s not that I’m following the age-old business advice that people do jobs for the sole motivation of collecting their pay – if I truly believed that, I might be a lot better off in material terms, but I’d also be dealing in illegal narcotics because the profit margins there are so much higher. No, I check for the salary information for two reasons. Granted, the first is because the salary is actually important – it may not be the dominating factor in my decision (for example, my new role involves a pay cut, but it also brings other benefits to the package that make up for that), but it is a factor nonetheless. Without good reason, you really shouldn’t take pay cuts to get the next job. Parity would be the lowest you should go, that’s only common sense – forget being used to a set quality of life, think what the next … Read the rest
