Why Do Kenyan Companies Insist On Last Or Current Salary?
Why do Kenyan companies justify needing a candidate’s salary history? Especially in light of the fact that job positions with similar titles at different companies often have substantially different performance objectives.
How could your salary history be considered relevant to the market value of your ability to do the job for which you’re applying? Or for that matter how could it be relevant to the worth a company places on having the job performed well?
I know Human Resource professionals who speak of requiring salary information as if it is their given right as a potential employer to have it. I beg to differ. How much money you make is private. It’s none of their HR business! The only pay rates a company has a natural right to know are those which it pays.
Suffice it to say that enough Kenyan companies require current or most recent salary information that the query of how to handle it comes up regularly. Every time it does I ponder the question of why these companies do it.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Why Do Kenyan Companies Insist On Last Or Current Salary?
Why Do Kenyan Companies Insist On Last Or Current Salary?
Why do Kenyan companies justify needing a candidate’s salary history? Especially in light of the fact that job positions with similar titles at different companies often have substantially different performance objectives.
How could your salary history be considered relevant to the market value of your ability to do the job for which you’re applying? Or for that matter how could it be relevant to the worth a company places on having the job performed well?
I know Human Resource professionals who speak of requiring salary information as if it is their given right as a potential employer to have it. I beg to differ. How much money you make is private. It’s none of their HR business! The only pay rates a company has a natural right to know are those which it pays.
Suffice it to say that enough Kenyan companies require current or most recent salary information that the query of how to handle it comes up regularly. Every time it does I ponder the question of why these companies do it.
Why do Kenyan companies justify needing a candidate’s salary history? Especially in light of the fact that job positions with similar titles at different companies often have substantially different performance objectives.
How could your salary history be considered relevant to the market value of your ability to do the job for which you’re applying? Or for that matter how could it be relevant to the worth a company places on having the job performed well?
I know Human Resource professionals who speak of requiring salary information as if it is their given right as a potential employer to have it. I beg to differ. How much money you make is private. It’s none of their HR business! The only pay rates a company has a natural right to know are those which it pays.
Suffice it to say that enough Kenyan companies require current or most recent salary information that the query of how to handle it comes up regularly. Every time it does I ponder the question of why these companies do it.
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