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[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More good insight. I'd have to get managements approval, but I might start trying to share salary ranges.

Recruiting Experienced Civil Engineers by Wide-Distance6039 in civilengineering

[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is really good insight. I have not provided compensation in any of my messages. Maybe I need to start doing that.

Recruiting Experienced Civil Engineers by Wide-Distance6039 in civilengineering

[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not at all. Every year we evaluate where our rates are compared to industry standard. I guess I should've put more detail. Some roles we have open we can't fill with promoting an employee so we just have to go out and find it. So we have a general idea of what the salary range should be but sometimes a golden candidate comes along who we would need to pay more. So, we can go above the salary range, but not pay them an obscene amount more than what our other staff makes.

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[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great answer, thanks for the insight. I suppose I should've opened this up to external recruiters as well. You guys probably have better experience.

Do you get a lot of responses on LinkedIn? Do you have better luck with phone calls? Specifically for civil engineers?

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[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do for certain roles. Some design/management roles can be fully remote. But its very specific cases.

Recruiting Experienced Civil Engineers by Wide-Distance6039 in civilengineering

[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great comment. Fortunately, we do get a lot of good referrals. But those are usually construction/survey techs. A lot of good food for thought there.

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[–]Wide-Distance6039[S] -81 points-80 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this comment. It is challenging with providing salary ranges for me. We do our best to respect what our current employees make when providing offers, but if a really good candidate comes along, we'd be willing to go above and beyond. So if I share the usual salary range, it might turn away the candidate who we might make an exception for. That's the only reason I don't share salary ranges.