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Job salary question

  • 15-04-2018 4:00pm
    #1
    garbo speaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭


    Hello,
    I applied for a job and have been offered an interview for same. However, there was no mention of salary in the job description. The interview is very far from my home, and by the time I prepare everything I need and go to and from the town it is in, I will have spend the guts of a day. Before I accept the interview, I want to ask the employer what is their salary, as I don't want to waste an day if the salary is below what I expect. Is this acceptable?


Comments

  • #2
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,022 ✭✭✭skallywag


    We would normally always have a first contact with candidates via a short phone call, during which it would be quite normal to be asked about salary. This approach helps to prevent time been lost on both sides if it quickly turns out that the candidate is a non-runner, or if the position itself is simply not appealing when described in more detail.

    It sounds like in your case though that no such initial call has been proposed, and you have been invited on-site as the first step? If you contact them in advance with the one and only question concerning salary, then you are running a high risk that this is going to reflect badly. If you can somehow try to arrange a short call etc. where you can have a chance to find out more about the position, ask lots of other questions, etc. then you may be able to pull it off.

    To be quite frank with you spending the guts of a day on an interview for a position which you are genuinely quite interested in is par for the course.


  • #3
    asuna_cpl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭asuna_cpl


    Yes, it is. Give them a call and ask the salary. If they play games then you know that it's already a bad sign. ;)


  • #4
    dragonfly!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭dragonfly!


    yes no point wasting both your time and theirs


  • #5
    shenron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭shenron


    Usually, if the companies don't want to expose what they offer publically, means that what they are offering is not competitive on the market and they play with the candidates in the way that you will be interested in the position after they present themselves in the best way lying about everything. And at the end, they come up with a miserable offer that you are tempted to accept because of all the good thing they presented you in a marketing way. I would suggest, Don't lose your time, and ask about the compensation interval in advance.


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