When I was last job hunting I ruled out all ads that didn't include a salary range. That was a good filter. I may have rejected some companies that would have hired me on more than I'm on right now, but that was OK. I don't want to work for a company that writes bad job adverts.
I also used the heuristic that the top of the salary range in the advert was the absolute maximum the role would pay even if I was a perfect candidate, so I could reject any adverts where the maximum was below my minimum. Another good filter.
Then I ignored the minimum on the assumption that job adverts, and recruiters, often seem to lie and there was a chance that I might be offered a role under the apparent minimum. However, I applied my own minimum salary by taking the value 1/4 between the advertised minimum and maximum; if they offered less than that I'd reject it because it meant they weren't entirely happy with me if they were offering near the bottom of the range.
All in all this meant my job hunt was quite stress-free and enjoyable. I could easily reject adverts and offers, and when the right one came along I knew it was a good match.
Knowing that I could do this with every role in the EU is a good thing.
I didn't use any job boards. I changed my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" and the recruiters circled like vultures around a freshly dead carcass. (Given how I felt at the end of my last role this is a fantastically accurate analogy.)
> I changed my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" and the recruiters circled like vultures around a freshly dead carcass.
Can I ask in which country that is? I did the same thing but no recruiters reach out. I feel my country is just a sw dev wasteland where careers go to die, as connections from the UK and NL reviewed my resume and had nothing but praise, so my CV is fine, and I guess the market i reside in is bad.
I'm in the UK. I also have a moderately decent network, with lots of recruiters as second order connections, from knowing some founders. I think that makes a difference.
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When I was last job hunting I ruled out all ads that didn't include a salary range. That was a good filter. I may have rejected some companies that would have hired me on more than I'm on right now, but that was OK. I don't want to work for a company that writes bad job adverts.
I also used the heuristic that the top of the salary range in the advert was the absolute maximum the role would pay even if I was a perfect candidate, so I could reject any adverts where the maximum was below my minimum. Another good filter.
Then I ignored the minimum on the assumption that job adverts, and recruiters, often seem to lie and there was a chance that I might be offered a role under the apparent minimum. However, I applied my own minimum salary by taking the value 1/4 between the advertised minimum and maximum; if they offered less than that I'd reject it because it meant they weren't entirely happy with me if they were offering near the bottom of the range.
All in all this meant my job hunt was quite stress-free and enjoyable. I could easily reject adverts and offers, and when the right one came along I knew it was a good match.
Knowing that I could do this with every role in the EU is a good thing.
Which job boards with salary ranges do you use?
I didn't use any job boards. I changed my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" and the recruiters circled like vultures around a freshly dead carcass. (Given how I felt at the end of my last role this is a fantastically accurate analogy.)
> I changed my LinkedIn status to "Open to work" and the recruiters circled like vultures around a freshly dead carcass.
Can I ask in which country that is? I did the same thing but no recruiters reach out. I feel my country is just a sw dev wasteland where careers go to die, as connections from the UK and NL reviewed my resume and had nothing but praise, so my CV is fine, and I guess the market i reside in is bad.
I'm in the UK. I also have a moderately decent network, with lots of recruiters as second order connections, from knowing some founders. I think that makes a difference.
I expected as much, the UK is still second to none when it comes to SW opportunities, especially for those without fancy degrees.
What about those firms that don't seem to have an advertised range, but levels.fyi says it knows the range? Does that count as a range?