As far as all interviews are passed and negotiations on payment conditions reached the mutually accepted agrement, the real employment or the probation period may start. The probation period is still considered in Russia not as the beginning of real employment, but as trick of an employer to save on salary and benefits. Indeed, Russian employers nowadays prefer too often not to make “normal work contacts” with a special clause of probation period that cannot last more than three (for managers -- six months) and should have clear criteria of success/failure. Instead they force employees to make special temporary contracts separately for the probation period. In such contracts salaries usually are minimal. Temporary workers are also excluded from all social benefits offered to “normal fellow-workers.” Such a contract may be terminated at any time without explanations from the employer. Therefore, probation period is accepted only by persons who have no other places to go