Megan Robinson
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2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 29 Jan
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Low-balling is when job applicants offer an employer to work for less than the listed salary.
Candidates do it to appear cheaper and therefore hopefully more desirable to employers.
It's something I've done myself and have seen amongst other younger female job seekers.
But in my own case and in the other women I interviewed, it didn't help any of us get a job.
I think it's more of a symptom of how difficult the job market is for young people right now.
Yeah, absolutely.
So
After graduating from my master's degree last year, I applied to over a thousand jobs and only had three interviews.
One of these interviews was for a writer-editor role at a small health publication.
But after my first interview, I was rejected.
It made me really panicky because I'd been unemployed for so long and I didn't know when I might get another interview.
So I was quite desperate and I followed up saying I'd be willing to accept less than the posted salary if they'd keep me in consideration.
Surprisingly, it worked, and the hiring manager said he'd bring me back into the running.
But in the end, I still wasn't hired.
I was told that I wasn't meeting output expectations, and they didn't have the budget or the capacity to train me.
It made me wonder whether anyone had done the same, so I put a call out to my network to ask, and everyone who replied was a woman in their 20s.
They told me that they'd also offered to work for less, but in none of their cases had it led to a job offer.
Yeah, I mean, I understand it because on the one hand, it could bring down salary benchmarks for everyone.
So I can see why some people were criticizing me.
I also can understand that people were criticizing me because they said it's just a really bad salary negotiation technique.
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