Just wondering if anyone with any experience could be kind enough to help.

Applying for a salaried role for when I finish uni in the summer. The application has the usual employment history request but also asks for an 'annual salary' for each position. The previous jobs I've had have either been at training level or run of the mill dead-end sort of jobs where I was on an hourly rate, not a salary as such.

What would be the best thing to put in the box in question? Would I try and estimate whatever the figure would be for my yearly salary, e.g. weekly wage x 52, or do I simply just put in the box whatever my terms of pay were as they were set out on my contract e.g. £xx.xx p/h.

Thanks in advance.

Think I put my hourly rate in the box, similar to what you have said at the end, trying to work out your "salary" would be a pain in the .

But I would also mention it in the info you have to put about where you worked that it wasn't a salaried position but an hourly wage basis.

thanks broady

No worries, I'm not totally clued up on that so maybe someone else will get on here with abit more info for you.

Hope you get the job

"£negotiable"

Is it normal for a business to advertise a salaried position to graduates and not mention what the salary is going to be, even a vague indication of a range of remuneration ?

At least he knows who he's hoping to work for. Plenty of jobs on the Universal Jobmatch site (jobcentre plus website) don't tell you the name of the employer or where it is other than a city name. And often don't tell you the hours of work.

I watched a Billy Connolly video on Youtube last night where he ranted about checking in at an airport and how "Back in t'day" you turned up, bought your ticket, they gave you your ticket, asked you where you wanted to sit, you pointed to a plan and they tore off a sticker from the plan with your seat number on it, stuck it to your ticket and that was that, no-one could sell that seat again because there was no sticker for it !

His point was - it worked, it couldn't fail to work unless all the stickers fell off the plan.

The JobCentres used to have a similar system, they got job vacancies rung into them, they wrote out a card, they described the job, the pay, where it was and the hours, they had lines to fill in on the card so they had to give you that information, a person took the call and asked those questions and if the employer said "I don't know" to the question "How much per hour are you offering" or "Dont know" to "Where is the job located" then the card was binned - those cards then got displayed on boards and when someone wanted to apply fot he job - well you know the rest.

Do things work better now ?

Yeah I've seen that! www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... stleblower