Andrea Kay, "The Country's Leading Career Expert," replies to people challenging her advice that new workers not bring up salary and benefits too early in the interview process.
She stands by her advice, though, and says that the smart candidates lead -- and stick for quite a while -- with information about what they can add rather than what they can get.
That is sound advice. But the questioner was giving voice to the widespread feeling that employers, in many cases, seem to hold all the cards when they are interviewing. That has almost always been the case for first jobs