Job Hunting in the Pandemic: Don't Overshare
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Here's your money briefing for Tuesday, February 1st. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. A lot has changed about interviewing for jobs in the past two years. They're almost all on Zoom. Questions about workplace flexibility and burnout might be just as important as salary. But when discussing concerns about work-life balance with a hiring manager, how much information is too much information?
The harm in oversharing is just that there is still bias out there. So you don't want someone to not be giving you a job because you're a parent or you have an elderly parent or you have, you know, a disability.
On today's show, we'll examine the new rules of job hunting with WSJ Work and Life columnist Rachel Feinzig. That's after the break.
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Salary is likely to come up in your next job interview, but many candidates are now adding other pandemic-era questions to the list, like where people are working, how flexible the company is, and what are they doing to help prevent burnout. That's a lot to talk about, but knowing how much to share with a hiring manager can be tricky. WSJ Work and Life columnist Rachel Feinzig has been talking with recruiters and hiring managers about how much or how little candidates should reveal without short-circuiting their chances of being hired. Rachel, thanks so much for taking the time to chat.
Thank you so much for having me.
So Rachel, a lot of people are still working from home, but a lot of companies have begun a hybrid schedule. A couple of days at home, a couple of days in the office.
How has the pandemic changed job interviews and why does workplace culture matter now?
How has that affected job interviews?
Yeah, so many job interviews these days are still virtual. And so you're not seeing people at work. You're not seeing people interact with each other. Even if you are doing an in-person interview, maybe like half the company is there if the company is on a hybrid schedule. So you really just don't get that same window that you used to.
All right, so let's tackle some of the topics that are likely to come up in an interview. Let's start with pay. We're seeing a worker shortage in many areas, and that's meant a bump up in salary for many new hires, and in some cases, a pretty sizable one. Online research can give a candidate some idea about salary ranges, but how should they approach actually asking for a certain pay level?
You can ask the recruiter what the budget is for a role. And one of the recruiters I talked to said she's totally open to people having that conversation early on in the process. That doesn't really phase her anymore. It doesn't phase her when candidates request 20% to 30% higher than the kinds of offers she was giving out before the pandemic. It really is a new market out there. Obviously, probably don't want to say your current pay. That could box you in. Some locations have rules that actually outlaw interviewers asking about salary history. So you really want to start by asking someone what their budget is for the role. So in addition to all of these rules around interviewers not being able to ask folks about their salary history, we're also seeing some locations in the US, like Colorado and soon in New York City,
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