Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
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O.K. Hopefully the title will get some attention and elicit some good advice.
The situation is this. I work for a relatively large defense contractor. We are currently in a work up-swing. The company is actively recruiting with one of the positions being a perfect fit for me except I'm over qualified and over paid for the job. I have not applied for the job yet but I'm getting un-official requests from other employees and managers for help on the new task and encouragement that they want me for the job.
Even though I am a pay grade above what the current job description states, I am considering the strategy of applying for the job and listing a salary requirement in excess of what I currently make. There are some specific areas of expertise and security requirements that will make filling the job a challenge.
Long story short. Has anyone got any success or horror stories related to applying for an internal job as described above?
Thanks
The situation is this. I work for a relatively large defense contractor. We are currently in a work up-swing. The company is actively recruiting with one of the positions being a perfect fit for me except I'm over qualified and over paid for the job. I have not applied for the job yet but I'm getting un-official requests from other employees and managers for help on the new task and encouragement that they want me for the job.
Even though I am a pay grade above what the current job description states, I am considering the strategy of applying for the job and listing a salary requirement in excess of what I currently make. There are some specific areas of expertise and security requirements that will make filling the job a challenge.
Long story short. Has anyone got any success or horror stories related to applying for an internal job as described above?
Thanks





RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
The only thing I can offer from experience is that once you are settled in a job, the company sees you as a non-entity and it is easier for them to hire from the outside than to look within. They see it as having two jobs to fill- the new one and yours.
RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
One bit of advice would be to make sure they aren't going to pay you above the stated salary range but put you into the lower pay grade. That would have adverse income effects for you long term.
My advice is put in for it. State your criteria. If they want you badly enough they'll accomodate.
RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
Our raise formaula is the traditional big company formula.
penetration into pay-grade x performace = % raise
RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
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RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
Happened to me with a boss who had worked his way up the ladder, by being there at the right time and not by aptitude. His response was to not recognise my experience and education, (to the extent of rubbishing them to my face). I was a threat that he had to cull. Long story short - I was out of there on the day the contract finished, much to his surprise.
RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
Sometimes we all do jobs that we're grossly overqualified for. Last night, I cranked some Photoshop pictures for a proposal, for which I'm overqualified for, but we save on not having a full-time tech pubs person.
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RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
Good luck.
RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
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RE: Strategy to apply for a LOWER pay-grade
One would take frequent jaunts to Europe with the goal of selling products. All that expense came to nought. Also, we made short run production samples that were never paid for. Another sales guy resisted proposing a cost reduced version for the customer.
Another stinger: sales had superior health insurance; engineering had a bad HMO. I hired a lawyer three times to force the HMO to pay their bills.
The company is now on the skids after an old sales mgr formed a competing company.