Yahoo Finance Game-changing trick for Aussies to expose pay secret: 'One step ahead'
You'll finally be able to see the vital information that's normally hidden from jobseekers.
There's a website for all you jobseekers out there who are desperately wanting to know a role's salary range before applying. Sending off a job application is no easy work these days as you have to carefully curate your details and cover letter to make sure it passes the first round AI test.
All that hard work might end in vain when you discover during the interview process that the role isn't paying what you want. But, you can avoid that nasty headache thanks to a site that harvests data that is invisible to jobseekers.
Ex-recruiter Marina Gainulina exposed website What's the Salary as one of three "dirty, little secrets" that the industry "doesn't want you to know".
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"If you are tired of scrolling through SEEK, applying for roles, wasting your goddamn time when you don't actually know the salary of said roles because the salary is not disclosed, there is a tool for that," she said.
When you find a role on job site SEEK that tickles your fancy, copy and paste it into What's the Salary and it will provide you with a range that the recruiter or company is looking for.
Gainulina said this data is provided to SEEK but kept hidden from jobseekers.
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"It's another fantastic way to make sure that you don't lowball yourself when they ask you later down the track, what would you like to be on, because you are now one step ahead of them, and you know exactly what their range is," she said.
What's the Salary's mission is to provide more "transparency" in the job-hunting realm in Australia and New Zealand and it hopes by publishing salary ranges, recruiters and companies will be "more forthcoming" with the vital information.
"Each time a job is submitted, we query SEEK to see if it can pair the job in question with a specific salary," it said on its site.
"If SEEK successfully finds a match, the tool incrementally adds $1000 to the salary until no further matches are found. The range is determined once SEEK returns a negative response."
Yahoo Finance found the salary ranges can be fairly large, with one search showing a job paying between $119,000 to $150,000. Where a candidate will fall in that range will largely be down to experience, references, and their negotiating tactics.
Other tactics to use while searching for a job
The other piece of advice from Gainulina was to always ask for the salary range if a recruiter or hiring manager asks what your pay expectations are for a role.
She said if you blurt out a number without knowing the range, it could be on the lower end of the company's scale and you'll ruin any chance of being able to get a higher salary.
The third suggestion from the former Sydney recruiter was if you find a good role online, locate the hiring managers on LinkedIn and send your CV to them in addition to filling out a formal application.
"You are going to have a far higher chance of advocating for yourself and presenting yourself in the best light than you would trying to beg for scraps from a recruiter," she said.
"No one's going to give you a better chance of putting yourself in the best light than you."
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