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Discussion on: β€œWhat is your current salary?” is a red flag that you don’t want to work here

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Skyler

I was looking for a job 2 months ago, and a couple of recruiters did ask me this question (not all of them!).
They always were a bit taken aback I didn't answer. They usually responded saying "oh but it for the process blabla".
I don't think being confrontational about it would help. Sometimes the recruiter just accepted my answer and moved on - no worries there. :)

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I understand your position, this was basically my approach one year ago.

But then I realized that if they try to trick me to underpaid, they probably do the same for all the colleagues too. So I am not satisfied with "it didn't work on me, so this is fine". I don't want to work in a company where my colleagues who do the same job are paid 10-30% less, just because they are bad at talking about money. Or maybe just because they are women.