Some apply for positions for adult child, stick nose in salary negotiations
By Eve Tahmincioglu
msnbc.com contributor
updated 9:40 a.m. ET, Mon., May 24, 2010
Salary negotiation with candidate’s mom
Some parents also are sticking their noses into the salary negotiation process.
Late last year, Lisa Fedrizzi-Hutchins, a hiring manager for an environmental company in New York, made a job offer to an entry-level candidate and asked her to review it and call if she had any questions.
“The following day, I received a phone call from her mother because she felt her negotiation skills were far better than her daughter,” Fedrizzi-Hutchins recalled. “She had explained to me that the salary was far too low for her daughter to live comfortable in New York City and wanted to know what we needed to do to bring her salary up.”
The mom also asked for four weeks of vacation, above the standard two weeks' vacation for employees starting out.
Suddenly Fedrizzi-Hutchins found herself doing salary negotiations with the job candidate’s mother.
“The mother was not very happy with how our conversation ended, and sadly, her daughter did not accept the position with our company,” she said.
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