Stand Up For Your Qualifications and Salary
Your Time and Efforts are Valuable Since November 2022, through the publication of this post, I had sent over 700 applications to a specific role type that catered to my résumé. While some applications received hits, a majority received rejections, or simple ghostings. While a few interview requests came in, and while I did take them, I had myself open to recruiters reaching out to see if I would align with a role they had in mind; some were internal and some were external recruiters. Meeting The Salary Expectations The first was from a company based in California, whose name I can't remember at the moment. The recruiter was internal, and seemed turned off when I gave her my salary range. During our "screening" call, she expressed frustration about the fact that she had to re-post the role several times, a few times with the salary, and a few times without. Needless to say, the times that she posted the role with the salary, she had very few—to almost no — applicants. S