雇佣过程中的薪金问题.doc

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Money Matters in the Hiring Process.
作者:Sammer, Joanne
Although job applicants are plentiful, salary is still up for discussion--and negotiation.
While unemployment has topped 9 percent and the economy remains shaky, many employers are filling job openings.
"Companies are being selective and taking a bit longer in the process, but they are still hiring," says Don McDermott, president of . McDermott Associates, pensation consulting firm in Red Bank, . "Even if they have instituted a hiring freeze, companies will still hire when the right es along."
Some employers are even willing to negotiate with applicants pensation--especially applicants likely to be revenue-generating superstars.
In general, however, the economic slowdown and job scarcity have led to significant changes in pensation segment of the hiring process. Many employers are lowering starting salaries or keeping them flat, experts note, and they're finding many candidates flexible pensation--sometimes even silent about it. Moreover, crafting pensation packages has e easier, some experts say.
First, Talk About Money
The topic pensation ing up earlier now in the back-and-forth between applicant and employer, and with good reason, experts say. panies are often overwhelmed by overqualified candidates, pay can be a good way to narrow the field.
In addition, "there is so much variety in people's salary expectations these days that employers need to pensation information from candidates as early in the hiring process as possible," mends Josh , district president in Seattle for Robert Half International, a professional staffing firm based in Menlo Park, Calif. "There are drastically different numbers being thrown around because candidates' expectations are all over the place."
At Dallas-based , an online dating service that's growing and profitable, hiring is progressing at a slower pace than in recent years, and pensation discussion is happening much earlier. "We want to know upfr