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Are you prepared to work for min wage ? I don’t think you did anything wrong by asking for market rate . Best of luck and hope you are successful.

How much above minimum wage did they advertise? They'll pay as little as they can which makes sense from their point of view. If they interview 5 good candidates and offer them all minimum wage only to has to say yes and the company has saved money.

The OP would have to be currently earning less than minimum wage for this job to pay better.

Of course, it's a risk they take. Depends on the industry and position being filled but that can definitely be a problem. Might be a role that can be easily filled and not much training required, we haven't really been told.

Which means your hourly net rate is €11.53 (19.5 hrs) and you have the option of taking a part-time job.

The OP's concern was about the hourly rate not number of hours. Number of hours were never mentioned. The job was advertised at an hourly rate in excess of minimum. The actual hourly rate on offer is minimum. As it turns out the OP is currently earning more than minimum with fixed hours.

That’s an absolutely massive spread, surely must have been a typo if ‘market rate’ is actually minimum wage

if you’re offered the job tell them that you’ll accept min wage until you pass probation but after that you want 15 euros an hour

Do the hours of work let you do both, ie stay on the CE scheme, and take the job? If you can, that's what I'd do in your shoes. If not, stay on the CE scheme, because that will give you more money.

Usually I would agree with the advice that the others are giving regarding negotiating, and not accepting less than the advertised minimum.

But I know from your earlier posts that you have struggled with some jobs. I think that you probably have less skills and experience that then company was hoping for - but they can see potential in you, so they are willing to take a change on you.

Rather than negotiate on wage now, I'd be asking about how often wage reviews happen, and how long they expect it will take you to get to get €12 per hour.

Now, there is a chance (maybe quite big, even) that the company are mess-ers who are taking advantage. For you, with a CE scheme on your CV, I think that i's a chance worth taking. If you find they are messing you around, then stay just long enough (maybe 3 months) to build up your skills and experience so you can get a higher rate in another job.

No, I don't think you handled it badly or that you created a bad impression. You were caught off guard by the question for reasons cited and your reply was fair.

Your "impression" is at comma stage not full stop stage IMO. You could make contact with them Tuesday morning 9am prior to being offered/not offered the job with a post interview note.

Some people swim at interviews others sink, the majority of us always can find at least one thing we could have said/answered differently. If I was interviewing and an interviewee came back to me with a post interview note, it certainly would not damage their chances of getting the job.

A post interview note shows that the interviewee is willing to stand up and set things straight when they don't do things the way they wished they had the first time.

Had the job been advertised for the rate they are offering you now would you have gone to interview?

Are the advertised 20 hours a week subject to change?