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Asking a candidate for their salary history is a way to justify paying them below market, so a candidate should never name a number first.

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hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

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  1. Patrick McKenzie Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11
    They are all using your previous anomalously low salary — a salary which did not reflect your true market worth, because you were young or inexperienced or unskilled at negotiation or working at a different firm or in another line of work entirely — to justify paying you an anomalously low salary in the future.

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