Soldato
So tomorrow I have a second round interview for a new job in the same sector but a very different role. Currently I'm a a structural engineer working in an engineering services consultancy in Oil and Gas, the new job is for the position of loss adjuster for a company actually quite similar to my current one, but they happen to have an arm in Adjusting.
Long and the short, the recruiter originally played up the salary range for the new role by an inordinate amount, leading me to pitch a much higher salary expectation (£[X+12]k) at first interview than they the employer were anticipating. He told me this during a phone call after, and apologised, and said their budget was much more around the £[X]k mark. He said they still wanted to go to second interview, but was I OK with this lower budgeted amount, and as my current salary is £[X-3.2]k I agreed.
He said he'd see what they could do about stretching their budget a little further, and find out details about the second interview. He also says that basically the only other competition for the role is someone with only 1 years experience (I have 3), but his salary expectation are more like £[X-10]k.
This morning he comes back, and says that due to the other guy being more affordable, and current salary levels in their team, they wouldn't be comfortable offering me any more than matching my current salary, £[X-3.2k].
I'm really not sure what to make of this, are they playing extreme hardball? I can't work out if the recruiter is also on their side or not (he strongly assured me they weren't playing hardball). On the one hand, I assume the recruiter wants as high a salary as possible to get him the most comission, but on the other hand what happened to the budget of £[X]k? Or was he lying about that to keep me interested?
All in all, I would be happy to take this job for the same salary I am on now, but I think this would be underselling myself, and it definitely would be a harder job.
Has anyone been in a similar situation before? Can I conduct further salary negotiation when meeting with the regional MD tomorrow, or would that be poor form, as currently that is going on via the recruiter? Or would it be legitimate to say look, the recruiter keeps getting this wrong, can we have a frank discussion?
Thanks all
Long and the short, the recruiter originally played up the salary range for the new role by an inordinate amount, leading me to pitch a much higher salary expectation (£[X+12]k) at first interview than they the employer were anticipating. He told me this during a phone call after, and apologised, and said their budget was much more around the £[X]k mark. He said they still wanted to go to second interview, but was I OK with this lower budgeted amount, and as my current salary is £[X-3.2]k I agreed.
He said he'd see what they could do about stretching their budget a little further, and find out details about the second interview. He also says that basically the only other competition for the role is someone with only 1 years experience (I have 3), but his salary expectation are more like £[X-10]k.
This morning he comes back, and says that due to the other guy being more affordable, and current salary levels in their team, they wouldn't be comfortable offering me any more than matching my current salary, £[X-3.2k].
I'm really not sure what to make of this, are they playing extreme hardball? I can't work out if the recruiter is also on their side or not (he strongly assured me they weren't playing hardball). On the one hand, I assume the recruiter wants as high a salary as possible to get him the most comission, but on the other hand what happened to the budget of £[X]k? Or was he lying about that to keep me interested?
All in all, I would be happy to take this job for the same salary I am on now, but I think this would be underselling myself, and it definitely would be a harder job.
Has anyone been in a similar situation before? Can I conduct further salary negotiation when meeting with the regional MD tomorrow, or would that be poor form, as currently that is going on via the recruiter? Or would it be legitimate to say look, the recruiter keeps getting this wrong, can we have a frank discussion?
Thanks all
I also don't know how much of a bad effect my first salary pitch (under misinformation from the recruiter) of £[X+12]k had, despite agreeing to some flexibility on that after the first interview.