{"id":1599,"date":"2008-06-02T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/be-conservative-on-the-compensation\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T13:25:48","slug":"be-conservative-on-the-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/be-conservative-on-the-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Conservative On The Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this line in a sales employment ad this past weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actual Year 1 average earnings\u00a0 &#8211; $100,000\u00a0 &#8211; $200,000 ++ REALISTIC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A $100K spread?\u00a0 You know, this type of line is an immediate red flag for a jobseeker.\u00a0 It may be true, but most salespeople will be skeptical.\u00a0 They will put a multiplier of &lt;1.0 on the number.<\/p>\n<p>The sad part of this ad is that it was posted by a sales recruiting company.\u00a0 The best bet in these ads is to be somewhat conservative on the compensation and keep a tight range on the potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this line in a sales employment ad this past weekend: Actual Year 1 average earnings\u00a0 &#8211; $100,000\u00a0 &#8211; $200,000 ++ REALISTIC A $100K spread?\u00a0 You know, this type of line is an immediate red flag for a jobseeker.\u00a0 It may be true, but most salespeople will be skeptical.\u00a0 They will put a multiplier of &lt;1.0 on the number. The sad part of this ad is that it was posted by a sales recruiting company.\u00a0 The best bet in these ads is to be somewhat conservative on the compensation and keep a tight range on the potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,26,16],"tags":[26,1762,472,596],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-pN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->