great candidate…top performer every place she has ever been…took two years off to have a baby…fair enough…now needs to find a job…
no way of her knowing that the market is really tight…she figures, like most top performers, that there is always room for a winner..
we don’t get that many interviews because: 1. the market is tight ..and 2. she has been out of the market for two years…
after three months and only three interviews, we get an offer…$90,000 salary plus commission…she said that she was probably going to turn it down because …”i was making $130,000 three years ago!”
well, it isn’t three years ago and this is a much different market… she eventually accepted the offer…it is a great company and she will have a great future..
lesson:..what you made three or four years ago was three or four years ago..the market is different now..no one is intrinsically worth any amount of money
