It's really unhelpful that the #ShowTheSalary message is temporarily being refocused around a single person/agency.
I don't want to add to that, BUT (bear with me here), I do think it's important that the blog put out yesterday gets some level of scrutiny/feedback. So... 1/?

*And I'll just take a moment to make it clear I'm responding to the blog, nothing else.
So, when it comes to them fighting for charities to remove degree requirements. I personally don't buy this whatsoever. They have previously refused to engage with me on the topic 2/?

on here, along with many others, and I've challenged other staff at the agency on it (when they've sent me roles to apply for) and they've never had the criteria changed. I can't believe they don't have the level of influence needed to get charities to remove this if they 3/?

really wanted to? It's such an easy point to make and it's something I've had stripped out of a lot of JDs without too much fuss and the great @NonGradsWelcome, along with many others, has too. This then comes on to the actual #ShowTheSalary element. They say that 4/?

they "always strongly recommend to clients that they do put salary amounts on adverts". Again, do they really have that little influence they can't have their voice heard? Especially when looking over at the @ShowTheSalary campaign group where they seem to have convinced 5/?

charities to add a salary just by tweeting them with some evidence. Again, if they were passionate about it, I can't imagine that those great minds couldn't get their voice heard. It's also interesting that so many agencies have signed up to that groups pledge to only 6/?

advertise roles with salaries. How are they possibly going to survive if charities always refuse this recommendation?! The blog also disputes the evidence for the impact of showing the salary on job ads, but they're happy to present a counter argument...with no evidence. The 7/?

brilliantly vague "it's down to internal stakeholders" should definitely avoid scrutiny. There is AMPLE evidence of the pay gaps that exist. There's also ample evidence that white men fair better than anyone else with salary negotiations. And there's ample evidence that if 8/?

you ask current/previous salaries this puts everyone who isn't a white man in a worse position. So it seems reasonably likely that if a wage is totally hidden then white men are going to come out tops? There's also lots of evidence that hiding salaries decreases the number 9/?

of applicants a role will get. More research needs doing here but it seems fair to assume, from anecdotal evidence, that those from eg poorer communities are far less likely to apply if they don't know it'll pay the bills. Then we come on to the wider evidence that so many 10/?

in the sector are sharing. Women and People of Colour are sharing their experiences and that HAS to be valued. If that's not good enough evidence then that's, frankly, horrific. If you don't value people's voices who have lived experience and you'll only rely on 11/?

peer-reviewed academic research then that doesn't reflect well. Another point that I think needs focus from the blog is that it puts all of this back onto the sector. The agency is always trying to do the right thing but damn charities keep refusing to put salaries on 12/?

and they're scared of the press, and it's those "internal stakeholders" (whatever that means). It's not a helpful narrative when so many charities, and other agencies, are leading the way. I don't think responsibility sits on any one group's shoulders but everyone 13/?

(including us hiring managers) needs to take some responsibility and not just say "well we try, but nobody listens". Finally, it's suggested they invite challenge and debate but my personal experience with them, and judging by the experience of many others, doesn't seem 14/?

to tally with that. So, all in all, I think the blog ignores the evidence that has been shared, positions charities as the bad guys and the agency as the angels and it just isn't genuine.
That was longer than I thought, and if I had a platform would've been a blog so 15/?

apologies. And I'm not an expert in this area but I've listened to enough people I respect sharing experiences that I think it's hugely important. Now it's time to go back to the bigger debate, and focus on the action all of us can take, but I couldn't just let all the work 16/?

that the people on my feed are doing, and the people behind the @ShowTheSalary campaign are doing, be largely discredited by a blog and then positioned as something we shouldn't challenge so we can all stick together. So everyone doing their thing, please keep going