On #hiring and #interviewing...
Many ask for it, but no #employer has a legitimate need to know your #salary history. Feel free to decline to provide that; it's none of their business.
Employers say "Oh, but we need to know it. If we offer too little, they might decline our offer!". It's B.S.
If they want to know whether you'll decline an offer, they can make an #offer. You'll either accept it, decline it, or offer to negotiate it. That's how negotiation works, and an offer of employment is absolutely a #negotiation.
The real reason they want this information is because they desperately want to avoid accidentally offering you more than the #minimum amount you will accept. If the position is worth $X to the company, they don't want to offer you $X. They want to offer you $Y, the lowest possible number that keeps you interested in the position. If they don't know what you made in your last job, figuring that number out is much, much harder. Stick to your guns. Your value to the company shouldn't be "approximately what my last position was worth to my previous company".
Push back. If someone from #HR tells you "Oh, but salary history is part of our standard process", politely decline. If they want to #hire you, they'll skip that step. And if they won't modify their #process for your circumstances, maybe you don't want to work for that company, because they won't be willing to vary any of their other standard processes even if your needs require it.
