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[quote=Anonymous]Having gone through this process as both and employee and a manager, I try and avoid corporate recruiters at all costs, because they will do everything in their power to fuck up the process.

I wrote my PhD dissertation in hiring contracts and understand that contracts are a multidimensional negotiation, of which salary is only one component. Anyone who focuses on salary is fundamentally incapable of doing their job since they don't understand the many issues of hiring. For example, at the beginning of my career, I took a below-market-salary job at the federal government because I knew that they would give me access to proprietary data and pay for a lot of programming training in SAS, C++, and SQL. I then leveraged that into talking to several other private companies (where I'd met the recruiters at conventions) that paid me three times as much. If they had ever asked me what I had previously made at the Fed, we would have both known that they were full of shit and not serious about the job. The point is that, in any negotiation, salary is only one component. I regularly consult for doctors on stats projects for free because I want them to get the best possible stats advice on medical cures. I regularly chars companies $600/hr for advice on how to run "data analytices" on their databases. Giving a salary is meaningless and totally uninformative from my perspective, but I know that unimaginative corporate recruiters demand it. I usually just list my highest number to not jump ship. If they can't meet that, then there's no point, and you're under no legal obligation to list your actual salary.[/quote]

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