My HR Team Won’t Tell Candidates the Salary Until We Make an Offer. Is This as Bad as It Feels?

Keeping candidates in the dark about pay is a recipe for wasted interviews and rejected offers. Alison Green shares how to break the cycle.

Keeping candidates in the dark about pay is a recipe for wasted interviews and rejected offers. Alison Green shares how to break the cycle.
Retailers frequently inflate prices before sales events to make discounts look larger than they are. Price history tracking tools show you what an item actually sold for over the past year so you can tell whether today’s price is genuinely low or a marketing move. Check price history before any significant purchase, especially around major…
The American consumer is still spending, but the Federal Reserve’s latest survey makes it increasingly difficult to speak of all consumers as though they were experiencing the same economy. The Fed’s August Beige Book, based on information collected through Aug. 24, found that consumer spending grew slightly overall. The national result, however, joined two conditions…
“Congratulations and condolences.” This is a real message a peer sent when I became CEO of BarkleyOKRP in May 2025. And he wasn’t alone in his sentiment. It seems many regarded this career-defining achievement as the corporate equivalent of buying a boat: Enjoy that first day; the rest will be rough. My future was to…
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One of my clients came to me with a high-stakes pitch to request a budget and head count for her team. She had built a beautiful and thorough deck with revenue charts, growth graphs, staffing history, and supporting data. Buried somewhere behind all the data and charts was the one thing she actually wanted: additional…
Home Transaction Banking Standard Bank’s Rajesh Ramsundhar on Africa’s Growth in Payments and Trade Produced in partnership with Standard Bank, this video features Rajesh Ramsundhar, Head of Investor Services & Financial Institutions, Corporate and Investment Banking at Standard Bank, speaking with Global Finance at Sibos. Rajesh Ramsundhar, Head of Investor Services & Financial Institutions, Corporate…