"The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high."
"The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high."
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Bollocks!
If they want to hire cheap, they'll end up getting cheap work.
We live in a capitalist trap, and they suck for not paying a fair wage in it.
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100% agreed.
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From the title "Junior Video Editor" and your description of the salary you proposed it sounds like this is an entry-level job that'll probably go to someone fresh out of school.
It's hard to read too much into it because this might just be a form letter, but it sounds like they genuinely thought you were a good candidate but they were looking for a more junior position. Sometimes this is dictated by their budget available.
Even if this is a form letter, they probably have a letter for the case where the salary was OK but they never want to hear from the candidate again. So you didn't get that letter, at least!
It looks like this was a "near miss". It's discouraging, but keep at it, you can do it.
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You would think "junior" meant entry-level, because I did at first, but I have seen a lot of jobs with that word in their title paying over £40,000 a year, so I think it might mean "junior executive" or something.
And thank you!
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I dunno. I see a lot of junior and entry level with a whole lot of experience expectations.
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I wouldn't count on it. Been getting those letters for a good 10 years.
That industry is rife with exploitation; I've collected pages and pages of resume builders, entry level, junior, blah blah blah. Budgets are low because work and experience isn't valued. If you do make it work, congratulations, you're the rare example.
I switched careers from video/film because I didn't want to live out of a car and other jobs paid better.
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Salary demands are a good way to weed out the cheapskate companies that can’t retain employees, won’t treat you with respect, and generally aren’t worth the effort. Frustrating, yes, but it’s their loss and not yours.
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Good for you keeping standards high or else it becomes a race to the bottom. Whats great is when you see something like this and then the same company is looking for the same thing three months later.
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Hold up aren't you the person who ditched the U.S. for Britain like a month ago?
Hope you get a job soon, keep on searching! Miracles happen when you least expect them :)
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That would be me. Thank you.
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What's infuriating here? You almost never get a reason why you have been declined (if they even answer you). So I find this message pretty nice and polite.. Or am I overlooking something?
100% this. This is pretty classy. We are typically told to not even contact external candidates. HR will send them the impersonal notice.
I think the requested salary amount plays a big role. If a typical 100k annual role was rejected on salary misalignments despite requesting 60k, I would be much more critical of the company.
I was asking for £30,000 a year. I don't think that's unreasonable for a professional position.
I feel like the numbers matter here. I recently moved jobs and the posted salary was the full range for the role. The hiring range is a narrower slice of that range. The range below the hiring target is internal development space. The space above is ..well they don't want to use it. They want a couple years of salary increase to keep you from immediately starting your next job search I think. lol.