I’ve worked at the same company for 5 years. Non profit. I was lowballed upon hire as a fresh out of college grad with little experience and it was my first non contract job. I needed the money. Now, I make 20K more than when I started and have attained not only experience, but a graduate degree in my chosen field. My performance is excellent and I pretty much walk on water. So to speak. Dream job comes up for the same company. I’ve been through 4 interviews and I thought yesterday was the last. 5th interview, me and the colleague I’d be working with hit it off again and start bouncing ideas off each other. It’s a great meeting. Hiring manager comes back and flat out suggests that I requested on my application 70-80k.
False. My application clearly stated 80-90k.
*Background: I did research, both market and nonprofit/within organization and asked others in the same level of position their salary and she lowballed me, the average in the position is 85-90k for the department. The average market rate is 105-150k. My worth via pay scale is 97k in industry. I thought 85k was feasible and showed my value as the department just bragged about being able to offer employees 80% of market.
We go back and fourth and she asks, “I don’t want to negotiate I just want to know, what is your bottom line?” In the importance of being candid, I tell her, “based on my experience, passion, and performance-85k.”
There’s a long pause and she said, “I’ll have to go back and check what you wrote on your application but I’m sorry, we may be too far off.” I explain that’s okay, I loved meeting everyone and there’s always potential in the future.”
What did I do wrong? Should I not have been honest?
Tl;dr. Lowballed, was looking/hoping for 20k more than offered and gave my bottom line of 15k.
Submitted October 02, 2018 at 11:18AM by zephyrzenizzle https://ift.tt/2y7Rfex
