Last month, I began my journey interviewing for a new position after being continuously harassed in my current teaching position by a male coworker.
The new position was something I have loads of experience with in the fund development realm. Requirements of this position were: a bachelor’s degree in communications, at least two years prior “successful” experience, and some personality traits centered around altruism and collaboration. You guessed it! It’s for a nonprofit.
There was no salary information listed in the description.
I was asked to take a behavioral index and create three different grants from scratch (which totaled around 13 pages).
There were 3 interviews total. After my first, it took around a week and a half to schedule my second interview, then two weeks after that to schedule my third interview. I often had to remind them I existed throughout the process or ask them to follow up because it was taking so long.
During the interviews, they said they have never seen more excellent writing samples and that I am an exceptional writer and communicator.
Two and a half weeks after THAT, they offered me the position at a “competitive rate” that is $6.5k less than what I currently make and nowhere near what I was asking for. And yes, they know what I currently make. They said it was because the position is actually hourly.
Friends this is no small organization. It is one of the nation’s largest. Why would a development manager be hourly and not salaried?
I asked if this meant that it’s possible I wouldn’t get paid the same week by week, and they said nonchalantly “yes”. Then she said, “but this position is exempt from overtime pay.” I’m sorry what? Why would anyone with 10 years of experience like I have even consider something like this?
They talked about the other person who used to have this position and said that she just “didn’t know what she was doing, didn’t have enough experience.” Insane, because you’re not willing to pay people for their experience.
I let them know that I was shocked and disappointed, that their pay was not in line with other companies, that they should not require such an extensive interview process for such little pay, and that they should post their pay in the job description. I’m still pissed.