Does anyone else feel there are a lot of unscrupulous employers around these days? I've come across a fair few who try get away with paying well below the market rate because there is so much supply they can get away with paying nothing and know there will be desperate grads who'd give their arm to have these programming or other highly skilled jobs on a min wage or near enough salary.
A good example is an analyst roles I have been applying for. They don't specify the salary in the advert but going by the market rate I assumed it'd be 45k-ish. However when I had the initial screening call they tried to get me down to like £35k. Ridiculous for someone with 10+ years experience. Why do employers try to even get away with that? One employer was moaning about paying me £30k despite me saying, but hang on, i've got 10 years experience. If you wanted a fresh grad on 25k or whatever you want to pay, then why waste my time? LOL.
I really resent employers for how they treat people. They also don't seem to look beyond the tick boxes - HR are thick as **** in my opinion. There are a lot of smart people out there who can do the jobs with a bit of training, but because they don't have 'real world' experience with some obscure software, you're not even invited to an interview. It's thinking like this that has left the UK behind in the competitive global marketplace.
/rant.
**** the UK