> Is the reason that you can get employers and workers to commit to salary ranges like this, that you're focusing on mediocre resumes?
I don't think so. Of the signups that have come in from this thread, most of whom have pretty respectable if not quite impressive resumes, about 80% chose to give a salary range and about 2/3 of those are OK sharing it.
I don't think most people are averse to sharing salary information. I think they just don't like the guessing game or the feeling like they're weakening their negotiating position, and having someone in the middle revealing things only with precommitments by both sides alleviates that quite a bit.
> (BTW, the below sounds like it could be a good/great thing. I'm not criticizing it, just curious whether that's also why requiring salary ranges upfront would work here, when normally both parties would be resistant.)
Yeah, no offense taken at all! It's a reasonable question. To be clear, though, we don't require salary ranges; we just ask for them voluntarily.
If one side or the other doesn't want to share that info, that's fine - we just won't give them the info the other party gave us either. If they don't want to share it even internally with us, they can do that, but that just means they get noisier matches, which isn't really to their benefit. But that's their choice.
I don't think so. Of the signups that have come in from this thread, most of whom have pretty respectable if not quite impressive resumes, about 80% chose to give a salary range and about 2/3 of those are OK sharing it.
I don't think most people are averse to sharing salary information. I think they just don't like the guessing game or the feeling like they're weakening their negotiating position, and having someone in the middle revealing things only with precommitments by both sides alleviates that quite a bit.
> (BTW, the below sounds like it could be a good/great thing. I'm not criticizing it, just curious whether that's also why requiring salary ranges upfront would work here, when normally both parties would be resistant.)
Yeah, no offense taken at all! It's a reasonable question. To be clear, though, we don't require salary ranges; we just ask for them voluntarily.
If one side or the other doesn't want to share that info, that's fine - we just won't give them the info the other party gave us either. If they don't want to share it even internally with us, they can do that, but that just means they get noisier matches, which isn't really to their benefit. But that's their choice.