Timeline for How to answer the question "Do you have any relatives working with us"?
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| Feb 16, 2021 at 19:14 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @Luke, If you still haven't closed the chapter on that company, I'd suggest that you call your relative up and ask them for advice. Right now, it's too late to answer their question retroactively yourself, but if your relative calls up any remaining friend they may still have there, they may still be able to get you an in. This is assuming that this relative knows you. If that relative doesn't know you directly, or if you're too afraid to approach them, ask another relative to be your go-between between yourself and that other relative. | |
| Feb 16, 2021 at 8:28 | comment | added | Luke | @Marianne013 the position I've applied for is an internship. Do you think that the scenario mentioned in your answer (companies in Germany) is analogous to mine? | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 15:28 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @Marianne013, That's a good point. Also, having your kid work at your own company can be seen as a fringe benefit to a worried parent. And in many union shops, this is an expected benefit for parent workers, even if their kid is not the ideal worker yet. | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 10:43 | comment | added | Marianne013 | I've seen companies in Germany preferring to hire apprentices (who are often around 16 years old when starting) if one of their parents works at the company - the reasoning being that a teenager might behave better if they know a parent is around. | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 7:53 | comment | added | David Schwartz | @Peter At least in my experience, when a friend or relative of a current employee applies for a job, most often it's because they have similar interests and abilities. But that might be because the companies I've worked for have been fairly small. That probably wouldn't be the case if the company was Amazon, Walmart, or Chevron. | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 7:39 | comment | added | Peter | @DavidSchwartz I understand that but I have many relatives that I wouldn't really call friends and/or share interests and abilities with. If anything that's more like working with your spouse. | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 7:28 | comment | added | David Schwartz | @Peter People tend to have friends with similar interests and abilities and people like working with their friends. If someone was a friend or relative of a high-performing employee, they would be one of the first people I would want to interview for any position that they were interested it. This is especially true of the employee vouches for them. (And, of course, the employee may also alert me if they think it's a bad fit.) | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 19:48 | comment | added | Anthony | Regarding looking for someone to vouch for OP, even if that had been the intention, HR would most certainly NOT have asked the vouching be done by a family member, due to conflict of interest / desire for fairness | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:54 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | With that said, if the resume came in for a particular job, we never ditched it, but if it wasn't prioritized or wasn't particularly a good match, it would go to the bottom of the pile, both in our database and in the real pile of resumes. And in our database at least, I don't think managers looked at the second page of records, so if your resume was not in the first page of results, your chances of getting an interview were much smaller. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:44 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | ...didn't lose your resume or filter your resume out because we were worried that the person in question would ask some follow-up questions and would complain if we had ditched your resume too early in the process. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:42 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @Luke, I used to work in HR scanning resumes. If a resume came in cold, I would not check that little checkbox giving it priority. So the answer to your question would be "no", at least based on my very limited experience at this one government agency in the United States when I was an intern. But if you spoke to your relative and your relative gave a call to a friend of his that still works there, then that friend of his can act as your introduction to the company. And whether that friend forwards your resume to HR, or you just mention their name on the application, then we made sure we... | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:34 | comment | added | Luke | @StephanBranczyk Do organizations consider relations with former employees? | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:21 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @Luke, Again, I don't think you can call that a "red flag", but the next time you apply somewhere, see if you know anyone who's working there, whether it's a relative or a friend. I believe there is a LinkedIn Chrome/Firefox extension for that that will tell you automatically if you have someone in your network who is working at the company you're browsing the website of. And yes, if you have a relative you know well who's a former employee, you should give that person a call, maybe he still had friends working there and he could have introduced you. | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:08 | comment | added | Luke | I have updated my question | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 8:46 | comment | added | Peter | Why would it be in the interest of the company to prefer interviewing relatives of employees? Logically, I can only see why the opposite would be the case. | |
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 8:00 | comment | added | Luke | Well said Stephan! | |
| Feb 9, 2021 at 7:46 | history | edited | Stephan Branczyk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 7:25 | comment | added | Luke | I think you've definitely made a point with Someone in the company has the same last name as you and they just wanted to make sure you two were not related. | |
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 6:56 | history | answered | Stephan Branczyk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |