Hi All,
I've been asked to provide expectations for salary range/package for an Environmental Consultant job I applied for. It's in Muscat, Oman. I've been trying to research it online and find out what reasonable salary ranges are for an Environmental Consultant with 3.5 years of experience. According to the posting i'd be doing site assessments and reporting.
Any advice on a reasonable salary range or thinks I should make sure to request would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
how do you find and contact relevant recruitment agencies? and how do they work?
Last year I went to a recruitment agency and paid them a basic fee. They claimed that their record is almost 100% placement. Few weeks in, I got multiple interview calls. But when I went in for an interview, not one of them was a professional or a well established company. Many of the calls I received were completely irrelevant to my profile. And others irrelevant to my level of experience and the salary I was receiving at that time. Finally I figured out the way this company worked.
Basically, they created an email account of my name (to which I never had the password) and bombarded my CV to any and every company they had on their list, probably over a hundred.
I discussed several times with my agent that they were not putting out my profile to the right kind or even category of companies. Ultimately, since I turned down the offers that came my way either due to profile or pay, the agent stopped responding completely.
It makes less sense to be an engineer and get offers from insurance companies. Or to be a lawyer and get offers from a clinic for the position of a clerk. This was the kind of response I got when I say the response was "irrelevant".
It is ofcourse possible that I went to the the wrong kind of recruitment agency. I would appreciate if someone can advise how one should find the right kind of recruitment agency and how do they function in putting your profile out there to the right companies.
Firstly any genuine recruitment agency would not ask for a fee of any sort.
I found that as well as contacting recruitment agencies, LinkedIn was a very good way to get noticed, especially out here.
The other thing to do, which can only be done when you arrive is Network!! A lot of jobs out here go to people because of who they know.
Geordie expat... do you happen to have any specific recommendations on how to get noticed on LinkedIn?
