Re:Agent on Demand – Job Offer Negotiation as a Service
by jholman on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:18AM
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This is precisely the compensation scheme that seems best.
I think I'd be comfortable paying 1/3 of the boost, for as long as I keep the job (probably with repeat business for the agent, when I change jobs). Maybe with a cap of a few years?
On the other hand, that's probably not a very large slice of total wage, so it's still pretty small compared to the 20% that recruiters apparently get. But maybe agenting is a lot easier than recruitering.
Not that I'm looking for a dev job currently.
The information asymmetry between the employee and company is huge: they know the market inside out, they negociate compensation packages every day and are strongly motivated to hide how bad they need to fill the particular position and how in-demand are those specific experts. Meanwhile, you only know your own salary and expectations, you are unable to objectively rank yourself and go on bits and scraps of information gathered here and there. This is a situation where you are ripe to be taken advantage of, especially on a booming market.
Where by "taken advantage of" I of course mean "sell your product for less than fair market value".