Let's talk about Title Inflation as a means of keeping salaries down.. I got hit by several recruiters in the last week, looking for "senior" engineers.
One offered slightly over half my usual rate. And when I look at the requirements: a Bachelor's and 3-5 years total experience. Senior, my pink white butt !!
Another offered me a slot at about 70% of my usual rate. Experience level listed as "Senior", and they wanted 10 years total experience.
Come on, people, can't we standardize on a few things ? Like:
Entry: 0-2 years experience
Junior: 3-5 years experience
Journeyman: 6-9 years experience
Mid-grade: 10-15 years experience
Senior: 15 + years
Instead, to "compensate" for lower pay, they're throwing titles at people. Utterly worthless ones. . .
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And hey, how about keeping records ? An outfit pinged me today, after pinging me last month. Still not interested in relocation. Resume hasn't changed, nor has the questionaire they sent for me to fill out. Is 28 days too long to keep a paper trail ???
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And we're back to I2s: companies are now putting out blind emails, and when you call them to ask whether it's I2s. . . .they reluctantly say, yes. Because most of us wouldn't bother responding if we knew for certain. . . You'd THINK the powers-that-be would take note, but this is DC. . . where new suckers arrive by the truckload every week. . . .
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