If you are like any other person that I have met during job interviews, you probably fall into the same trap alongside with the new fresh grads who are all too new to the evil working society.
You ever wondered why they actually have this clause: “Current Salary”?
This makes it easy for the HR Manager to cap a limit to your “Expected Salary”. Come on, why else will your new employer ask you for your current salary? So that he can tell you, hey, I am going to double that with these benefits that you can’t resist?!
Well, my advise is don’t reveal your current salary to your prospective employer even if it cost you the job…maybe close to losing the job.
If they insist you to reveal it, ask them straight in the face, with utmost politeness of course- “Why do you need to know?”
Yep, sometimes you need to answer a question with a question when the situation is not favourable to you. Let them give you the 101 excuses that they have up their sleeves, and in the end, still answering them with the same thing- “It’s my own private business. And I am asking now for this salary which I am think I am worthy of. If you have problem paying me this, then you are either doubting my professionalism or you are trying to bargain with my professional fee which is going to make you look really stupid, aint it?
Well, I don’t know about you, I don’t think it’s a good practice to be revealing or to ask about current salary during interviews. What are your thoughts?
Can Wealth Last 3 Generations by Ong Eu Jin
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