I know this topic of salary negotiation comes up quite often on this subreddit, and as a professional myself (I'm an Engineer) I've had my fair share of job hunting where HR personnel will give a low offer and just straight up refuse to even negotiate. Even with the pandemic going on there's still a high demand for engineers and I came across a job opening like this. I told the HR recruiter that I was going to decline the offer, but since I was keeping in contact with the hiring manager the whole time, when I told him my intent to decline the offer, he practically broke down and was begging for me to accept the offer. It turns out this job opening has been open for over a year and the manager has been desperately having a hard time finding anyone who's willing to accept the offer.
My mind was completely blown away when I found that out. How can an open position be open for that long without corporate/HR thinking, "hmm, are we doing something wrong?" I understand every company has their limits when it comes to employee salaries as part of their business' finances, which is why it's understandable that it's HR's goal to give you the lowest salary possible. But when a needed position is open for that long, how does HR not get dinged for that? Does HR not have oversight/metrics placed on them to ensure positions are being filled in at a certain rate?
The main purpose of my post is really just to better understand the negotiation dynamics from HR's end. Does HR really have nothing to lose when it comes to salary negotiations if people keep declining their offers?
Submitted August 15, 2020 at 08:48PM by ibob430 https://ift.tt/3g0SG2b
