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Dear all I have recently noted a few jobs advertised on PSCI-COM where part of the application process requires the applicant to state their last salary. One job ad threatens to not consider applicants who do not disclose their last salary. My understanding is that this is not very good practice in recruitment. The main reasons that I can think of include: This is sheer laziness on the part of the new employer - if they can't work out what the job is worth to them, they shouldn't rely on potential new recruits to somehow set the value of the post. And of course, this practice perpetuates the gender pay gap: given that women have a tendency to be paid less than male colleagues at some point in their life (usually in their first job), this practice ensures that those underpaid never catch up, as presumably the only reason why an employer wants to know your last salary is to pay you only slightly more. What does everyone else think? And can anyone suggest a good diplomatic course of action in applying for such jobs? Yours, doing my bit to challenge the gender pay gap! Happy International Women's Day for Sunday 8 March! Sarah Dr Sarah Peers FRSA FWES ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************