Accidentally saying too high of a Salary killed my Job Interview chances

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Summary

The creator performs a skit of a job interview where he accidentally asks for a salary that is too high, leading to a rejection. He then pivots to offering access to the full interview in his private community to his audience.

Structure

1Skit of a job interview salary negotiation
2Interviewer explains why the candidate is not a fit
3Interviewer discusses internal promotion goals
4Creator breaks character to promote his community

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Accidentally saying too high of a Salary killed my Job Interview chances

Transcript

I'm well curious, what is your salary requirement? Salary requirement? So I was looking online, I saw that it was close to like 120, 130 on target and around like a 70 or 80k base. If you could do something in that range. What's your comfort for base? As far as on target, I can't tell you because that's in the sales department. Right. But what is your base compensation that you're comfortable with? I was looking between like 80, 80 and 90 at least. Okay. Okay. Sharriff, I love you, but I'm with the people that we've been interviewing for this particular role, they have a lot more of the actual hands-on experience with electric vehicles, but they don't require that on their SDRs. But I don't know if we can afford you for an SDR. So I want to hold your information, if you do not mind, because if this person gets promoted, they're doing their interview Friday, and I'm 97% sure they're going to promote her. They better promote her, I'm going to kick, I'm going to fly some place and kick some people's butts because it would be the first, it would be our first internal promotion, which is very important to me because then I can tell people, it's not just a thing, we actually have done it, we have promoted, we promote from within. But it's just, it's just very important to me to have that start because I believe in it. We've only been around a year. Next week will actually, if you want to see the full interview, I have some of the clips in my free group and my private group. I want you to DM me interview on my Instagram and we're going to see which group it makes the most sense for you to join.