Timeline for Ask for higher title when negotiating with current employer?
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| Jul 29, 2015 at 18:53 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @svick it's not difficult to either find out the level a candidate was working at in a previous job or figure out that they're actively trying to block you from doing so. Neither option is likely to improve the candidate's desirability to an interviewer. | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | @svick I have interviewed my share of candidates and made them disgorge the truth. Don't think for a moment that you are going to tell me anything and that it's going to go past me. If you claim you were a senior developer, I will question you closely as to you did to justify your claim of being a senior developer. I will ask ask you questions to see how you approach problem solving as an alleged senior developer. Eventually, the truth comes out as I keep digging. You tell me until I believe you are for real or until I conclude that you are just another poseur. | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 19:48 | comment | added | svick | @VietnhiPhuvan Because that's not finding out what I actually did, that's me telling you what I did. And you may not learn that much this way, so the "Senior" title might color your impressions significantly. Compare "I was part of a team of several Junior Developers" with "I was a Senior Developer working with a team of several Junior Developers". | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 19:43 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | @Casey You gave yourself a title as "senior developer" at your company. Then you apply for a position as "developer" at another company because their "developer" position pays better than your current "senior developer" position. What's wrong with this picture? | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | @svick From reading what you wrote on your resume and interviewing you. Why are you asking such an obvious question? | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | svick | How will prospective employers find out what I actually did? | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 16:50 | comment | added | Neil Slater | @Caser: I think it is problematic only if you don't meet a prospective employer's expectation of what a "Senior Developer" is. The titles in software development are so unregulated though, that it is rarely a practical issue - someone reviewing the CV of a software developer will pay only a small amount of attention to the job title. This contrasts significantly with more formally regulated environments, such as finance. | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 16:29 | comment | added | Casey | Why would it be "problematic?" I don't follow. | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 11:55 | history | edited | Vietnhi Phuvan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2015 at 11:26 | history | answered | Vietnhi Phuvan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |