THIS DICTATES YOUR FUTURE. ANSWER THIS WELL BEFORE ACCEPTING A PROSPECTIVE JOB

 THIS DICTATES YOUR FUTURE. ANSWER THIS WELL BEFORE ACCEPTING A PROSPECTIVE JOB

Don’t rush to accept a job offer for the sake of being hired.

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So, you think you landed the job of your dreams, as a first-timer or a returner employee. 

Hurry not, eager employee.  In times of pandemic when jobs are scarce, and work-from-home jobs are not really happening for most applicants, there is one thing that one must be careful in “settling” for, before signing for a job.

 

Forget about that excitement  in trying an industry that is aligned to your education. 

 

As one chooses work, so is he or she building a future one day at a time.

 

The secret to being wise as a newcomer or same-old worker relies only on one thing-- when one is afront with an interview personnel, at a time when an individual has a pretty good chance already of being hired.

 

Know that this secret to having a better, brighter future can start with writing the answer to one important question given by screening personnel, even way before the interview, from the time you score an application form.

THIS IMPORTANT FUTURE SETTING for a worker requires answering a blank line that is repeated over by hiring personnel, no matter what company or industry one aims to enter.

 

The heavy impact answer that could impact an individual career, when asked by human resource personnel, requires honesty to the question:

What is Your Expected Salary? How Much Was Your Previous Salary?

 

These two questions tell and foretell how an applicant and would-be-employee would be treated by a company or employer.

 

Writing down one’s expected salary requires honesty and consistency of expectations, and not just hopeful statements on the part of an applicant.

 

It used to be that hard-knock industries attract a lot of bemedaled applicants for many reasons other than salary. The reasons include opportunity for fame, clout, or even an aspirational one. But signing up for a job that does not consider one’s financial requirements and needs; agreeing to a salary that would NOT satisfy standards of living  decently in today’s times could be tantamount to walking a lane of hopeless pursuit for a future that is not there.

 

Workers must be firm and blunt in putting forward their ideal salary expected. And must not get a kind of work that does not even consider good salary placements for employees.

 

Many companies consider hierarchy and plantilla in filling out work positions and offering figures for the salary.  But often, applicants are shortchanged of what they deserve or what is commensurate to the time one has to exert in order to get work done.

 

Thus, it would help that workers from the very start must write the fine line of their salary needs because if the preferred salary is not given, in one’s target position or work, a worker may soon regret having spent a great deal of time and effort being part of a company.  Regrets in employment must not be a standard for workers who value their talents and dedication to a company.

 

It is a tricky question that is always given with the intent to measure sometimes, with a bias to undermine and not to patronize a person’s capacity to work,  no matter what qualifications one has.

 

WHAT’S YOUR PREVIOUS SALARY IS A QUESTION HIRING PERSONNEL OFTEN ASK TO MEASURE THE IMPORTANCE, VALUE, AND INDISPENSABILITY OF AN APPLICANT.

 

How and why? The tendency of hiring personnel is to simply retain the old salary or match it with a similar offer to the applicant. That is often the easy and best route taken by HR, to offer a "realistic" same salary and play on that card of “times are hard” statement WHEN FINALIZING A SALARY OFFER.  

 

The fact is, getting the right salary can be as elusive as getting the right job to match one’s qualifications.

 

Hence, an applicant no matter what background one comes from,  must not settle for a losing end of the bargaining rod.

A worker who is clearly minding his or her future must NEVER accept a job that gives a salary that’s only enough to cover a person’s transportation fees or meals for an ordinary workday.

 

A definitive worker must make sure to land a job with a salary that would benefit a good financial future and not a “puwede na ‘yan” [that would be good rather than be jobless] statements, which often require workers’ sacrifice of time and talent, only to be wasted or taken for granted by an employer in the long run.

 

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