Salary advertised in job ad but they've asked for my salary expectation?

[rainbowcakes]

I applied for a job that advertised the salary as £28k, but they have just they have sent me a message asking what my salary expectations are.

In my current role im paid £23.5k part time , but would be £31.5k if i was full time (which i am planning to do).

To be honest i dont really want to change job for less than £32k, but this job is much closer to home and is directly in the area i would like to gain more experience in.

How would you answer this, given the salary was advertised on the job advert?

It's a common thing now respond with at advertised rate with expectations of salary increase

Apologies - posted in entirely the wrong thread!

@PissedOffAgain omg that really made me laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's standard practice for companies to ask you about your salary expectation. I found it worse when I applied for jobs where the salary wasn't specified. Some conversations ended because they couldn't meet my expectations but I ended up with a job which was more senior than what I applied for so nothing is ever set in stone. If it's stating £28k their range might be up to £35k for the right person. It's up to you whether you want to take the risk or settle for £28k.

Put 32k or what you feel you are worth

Unless the job is your dream job with all your dream benefits and you are happy to take the pay cut, do not take the job at £28k if you think you're worth £32k because you will simply be consistently resentful and it will ruin things for you. I think it's perfectly reasonable to respond with the fact that you're looking for £32k FTE.

Say £32k. If they can't meet that, then they will say, but no point selling yourself short

“My current salary is £31,500 FTE - I’m excited by the role and looking forward to discussing.”

So tough but you’ve got be believe in yourself and what you’re worth. My husband learnt this the hard way years ago when he got all excited about a job offer which was £4K higher than he was on and was swaggering around like a peacock 😆 He was rather deflated when he found out he could have negotiated as others in his team were on £9k more than him doing the same job! He certainly didn’t make that mistake again.