Know the answer (your competition does)

One panelist suggests the old rule about don't be the first to mention money is outmoded. With 24,508 applicants for 50 positions, salary requirements are used to screen out people.

An applicant says she'll deflect the question by asking "What's the salary range for this position?"

Lady, you don't know the answer? Why are you in the interview if you don't know what the job is worth? If your networking hasn't told you the range, at least you should have done web research on the market price for the position.

The modern job search is not like it used to be. You can't interview cold, in ignorance. Especially not when there are almost 500 people vying for your job.


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Somebody else is trying the sandwich board approach. Does this say "creativity" or "desperate"? He says he's gotten two interviews out of it.


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