Greed is Good

My estwhile Gallic colleague did me the favor of sending a recruiter my way a few weeks ago, and last week, the recruiter sent me an email saying she had a few product marketing opportunities available and could I send her the latest version of my resume, plus salary history/requirements. I did, and then I didn’t hear from her again.

Yesterday, I wrote to her and said “I take it I answered incorrectly on the compensation portion of the exam.” She said that I had: I had asked for $N, and the position she had in mind paid double that. If my last gig had so much responsibility, she wanted to know, how come I didn’t make more?

I explained to her that I was a product marketing manager for Novell, not the product marketing manager for Novell.

I don’t imagine that she’ll write back. I doubt she wants to touch anyone whose job prospects mean her ten percent will be less than ten grand. Besides, placing me would be more trouble than it would be worth: too specialized and too expensive as a writer, but suspiciously cheap for a marketing manager.

So it looks like I’m going to have to read Bait and Switch right after I finish that Gladwell book. Before anything else, though, I have to write an article proposal.