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"What are your salary expectations?"

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  • 21-02-2019 12:51am
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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,442 ✭✭✭✭


    Ugh I hate this question in interviews.


    Do all the research you like but go too low they think you are mad, go too high they think your mad.


    What interview questions do you hate/dread?


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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,115 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    What are your weaknesses?

    Such a pointless question, so many times I've felt like saying "Your Ma...".


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    #3
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,260 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    20 percent more than you in 12 months.


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    #4
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    I'm ambitious

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aLESDql1U


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    What are your weaknesses?

    Such a pointless question, so many times I've felt like saying "Your Ma...".

    I like this response. Been doing the rounds a while but still good

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    #6
    sundodger5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭sundodger5


    a euro more than i can spend...


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    #7
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    "...don't say 'doing your wife', don't say 'doing your wife', don't say 'doing your wife', .."


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    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Its not hard really, what are you on? Are you going elsewhere for more?

    Generally if you are going for a job and you dont know the rate for that job in the current market, thats poor research.

    So if you on X add what think you should be on and say that.

    Honesty cartoon above nails it....kinda.


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    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Never been asked the question. When my boss left 29 years ago I tried to get a rise, but was unsuccessful. Told to wait six months, then the guy who told me that died a couple of months later and it was all forgotten. Was told they would recruit a replacement for my boss, but they were not prepared to pay the going rate, so I effectively took on the role anyway. Took another 8 years or so, but eventually I started seeing some quite significant returns for my loyalty

    I was definitely underpaid during the first 10 years, but arguably have been overpaid for the last 10 years - not as overpaid as those who are more senior than me though!!


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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Why do you want to work here?

    Interviews have turned into complete and utter dog an pony shows, you have to pretend that this job is your dream one and not the one that some recruiter landed you with.


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    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,018 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    "What would you bring to the role?"


    :(


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    #12
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Ugh I hate this question in interviews.


    Do all the research you like but go too low they think you are mad, go too high they think your mad.


    What interview questions do you hate/dread?

    Kermit - youve been in a dead end civil service job for over 30 years, what do you know about this question :pac::D


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    upinsmoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭upinsmoke


    I said that in Amsterdam once or twice


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    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Ficheall wrote: »
    "What would you bring to the role?"


    :(

    Butter and ketchup.


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    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    €198.00 per week.

    And a little extra for the childer.


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    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Butter and ketchup.

    probably the best time to burst into pat shorts infamous song


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    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    its the stupid ones that annoy me
    stuff like this


    If you could be any character in fiction, whom would you be?
    If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?
    If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpowers to be?
    If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
    If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, but all your human needs—such as food and water—were taken care of, what two items would you want to have with you?
    If you had six months with no obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with the time?

    If you had only six months left to live, what would you do with the time?
    If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be and why?
    If you could compare yourself with any animal, which would it be and why?
    If you were a type of food, what type of food would you be?
    If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
    If you were a salad, what kind of dressing would you want?
    How do I rate as an interviewer?
    If you were a car, what type would you be?
    Who do you admire most and why?

    In the news story of your life, what would the headline say?


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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    its the stupid ones that annoy me
    stuff like this


    If you could be any character in fiction, whom would you be?
    If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?
    If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpowers to be?
    If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
    If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, but all your human needs—such as food and water—were taken care of, what two items would you want to have with you?
    If you had six months with no obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with the time?

    If you had only six months left to live, what would you do with the time?
    If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be and why?
    If you could compare yourself with any animal, which would it be and why?
    If you were a type of food, what type of food would you be?
    If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
    If you were a salad, what kind of dressing would you want?
    How do I rate as an interviewer?
    If you were a car, what type would you be?
    Who do you admire most and why?

    In the news story of your life, what would the headline say?

    Did David Brent interview you?


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    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Ipso wrote: »
    Did David Brent interview you?

    just a quicke google for odd interview questions.

    how i rate as an interviewer is a crazy one


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    upinsmoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭upinsmoke


    Ficheall wrote: »
    "What would you bring to the role?"


    :(

    That's one of the easiest to be fair and should be well researched


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I always aim high and act surprised if it's lower.

    I'm good at my job and won't take insufficient renumeration.


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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,442 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Sleety_Rain wrote: »
    Kermit - youve been in a dead end civil service job for over 30 years, what do you know about this question :pac::D

    On the contrary Boards pays me exceptionally well for my expertise on the weather forum but it's time to move on to bigger and better forums :pac:


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    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    How do I rate as an interviewer?
    you were doing all right till you asked that one,


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    "Sometimes I work too hard."

    "That's not a weakness."

    "It is - I stay at my desk for weeks, forgetting to eat. I actually die dead in my cubicle, disturbing my cow-workers with the foul offally stench of my decaying remains. Eventually, as the project deadline approaches, I re-animate as a hideous zombie to feast on the brains of the living, who are then left with no option but to go into middle-management, and sit in rooms like this asking idiotic fuckan questions all day."

    "Well reasoned. You're hired!"


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    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Well the thing about moving for more money is you can't price yourself too high.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've spent the last few days spending €175 m in my head. Even googling multi million euro properties in Geneva.

    I will accept nothing less than 175 mil


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Your Face wrote: »
    I always aim high and act surprised if it's lower.

    I'm good at my job and won't take insufficient renumeration.

    I never argue over money, I'm a fair and reasonable person so if I don't get what I want I vote with my feet.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    emeldc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭emeldc


    Your Face wrote: »
    I always aim high and act surprised if it's lower.

    I'm good at my job and won't take insufficient renumeration.

    Well you're not coming to work for me. The word is 'remuneration'. :)


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    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,362 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Well the thing about moving for more money is you can't price yourself too high.
    You can, actually. You can very easily price yourself out of the market.

    And it's not just a question of what they will pay you. There is also the question of how many people they have back in the office doing a similar job who will find out what you're on sooner or later.


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    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    pleas advice wrote: »
    "...don't say 'doing your wife', don't say 'doing your wife', don't say 'doing your wife', .."

    ....doing your ..... son ??


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    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 3,966 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    As Mitch Hedberg puts it:

    Q - Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

    A - Celebrating the 5th anniversary of you asking me that question


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