If the company who is keen to hire you, they want to find out whether your asking salary will be too high to be considered or not before they short list you to be called for interview. They probably have many other candidates to choose from and hence they dont want to waste their time and your time if you are asking for a unreasonable salary later on. I do not foresee what's wrong for giving them your salary info as with 2 years experience, it is still pretty much remain at standard market value unless you have special skills or qualification or you applying some unusual post. Else, they just want to double check to save you time and their time.

Probably TS wants to go for interview first before negotiating the salary. Like me, i dont need to ask the salary and i will go for interview to find out the job first, if i like the job, then, i will take up the job if the salary offer is acceptable for me. If not acceptable, i will just decline the job offered, and if they really want me after interviewed me and because i fit in very well to their post, they will call you and re-negotiate with you. At least i did this many years ago and rejected them 2 times and the 3rd time they calling me and offering the salary scale near to the top scale for my position at that time. Unless you are out of job, else you wont have such bargaining power, or you have lots of $$$ to back u up while you are still unemployed.

If you dont state your salary, and they decide to hire you, what if they offer you the salary that lower than your last drawn salary since you did not indicate to them. Will you accept that or you start to tell them you are drawing much more than that in your last employment? Will you?

What if you are now working in the HR department and you are doing the hiring job, what would you do if there are some people who apply the job and never stated their present salary and expected salary. Imagine you have 100 applicants and you need to hire one or two. Who will you call for interview? Remember, for junior staffs, almost everyone out there are same. If i pick who to come to interview, if got attached with a photo and if "leng lui", sure will get a call for interview....

Many are just junior HR staffs follow company SOP to do things lar. Actually, i can teach you a trick, you can bluff them your salary mah if you worry....later if they find out, say may be mistake lor.....by then, you have achieve your aim for going to F2F interview and do your presentation liao lor....happy ending????

Like someone said, if they are hungry, eventually they will eat, if they are full, whatever food you put on the table, they will say not good taste. Let them learn it thru the hard way.

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Added on July 20, 2011, 5:59 pmHallo, that is HR's job and if they dont do that, they might be out of job....

This post has been edited by Tigerr: Jul 20 2011, 05:59 PM

correct correct correct....