Questions tagged [first-job]
Questions about someone's initial working experience. May be about discovering how things work for a new person in an organization or about internships that can also be the first role someone works.
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Should I email tech recruiter again after not hearing from him for more than 2 weeks?
I reside in Canada and I have applied for a software engineering job in research and development at a well known technology company for which I am really curious and interested. After a couple of days,...
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I feel like I was set up for disaster, multi-year project at first job is doomed. Advice?
Throwaway and some generalized details for obvious reasons. But the gist of it is, I was hired as a developer for a non-tech company as one of its first members in that department(no other tech roles)....
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General Manager avoids signing agreement and is never present
I’m young and inexperienced, I’m not familiar with worker laws or how common things are within the workplace. I just turned 18 this year and for my uni course I need 5 weeks work placement to be ...
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Train very young colleague on professional skills
Someone has joined my team recently to run social, community, user research, etc. They have done this in the past for their family business and are very good with it.
But they seem to be quite ...
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How to convey during an interview that I want to do my masters, without turning away the opportunity?
I'm entering my last semester of my bachelor's, and recently I've been offered several interviews. One of these companies is a really prestigious one, and my application to this company have been ...
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How to handle a interview where my current employer will sabotage my reputation? [duplicate]
When interviewing, how should I handle a situation where my current employer will totally destroy my reputation and thus sabotage my chances of getting a future job?
I also have Autism Spectrum ...
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Is it reasonable to expect to wait a month before receiving a new contract of employment after salary negotiation?
I recently completed an apprenticeship for a company that I've been working at for three years now.
Pretty soon after I received a contract of employment from them - however the salary was too low due ...
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Been at a company 9 months, never received training
I was brought on at a company 9 months ago as part of a work study program in France (industrial automation). This is my first job, so I wasn't sure what was normal in terms of being totally lost and ...
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Should I request to delay my start date due to employer-provided equipment not being available?
I have accepted a job and the company is sending me a machine, monitor, keyboard, and other electronic equipment. For reasons outside of my control, this equipment will not be available before my ...
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What are the pros and cons of Graduate program or Junior Management program in industry after a PhD? [closed]
I am a PhD student and will graduate in next few months. I want to switch to industry, preferably in a tech-management role down the line. During my job search I came across Trainee programs such as ...
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Co-worker copying my messages and privately send them to clients as his own
I am a software developer, and my new co-worker is privately asking me questions and then sending them in private group chats to our client. This is my first job and I wasn't sure whether this is ...
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As a beginner developer, how can I overcome not meeting the requirements of any job? [duplicate]
I started learning web development by myself, over the internet. So far I've learned HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, React including Hooks & Redux, Node, Express, MongoDB & Mongoose and ...
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First job likely to be remote due to COVID-19: tips needed
I am starting my carrer just now (currently applying for my first job after finishing my MSc degree), and the jobs I applied to are 100%, mostly or at least partly remote (I am applying for ...
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How do I, a junior developer, ask for a senior's help? [duplicate]
I am a junior developer that recently graduated from a programming bootcamp. I studied front end development for three months and previously outside the bootcamp, I did not have any exposure to ...
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Applying For New Jobs after Fired, Amount of Detail When Explaining
I am a 27 year old male in the US. I was with an actuarial consulting firm, my first job out of college, for approximately two years until I was fired. I am starting to apply for new jobs in the ...
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Should I start a new journey? [closed]
Almost a year after graduating, I work for a large company. I am highly motivated and passionate about my current job. I have never had any experience as a product manager, but I feel that I have been ...
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Company refuses to give written offer letter
I had one in-person interview yesterday at a small law firm. An hour after the interview, they called to tell me that I got the job. After I negotiated my salary, they told me that I should start ...
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How can I accept a job offer after rejecting it?
I am graduating with an industrial engineering degree in May, and I got a job offer from a military branch up in Maine. The military flew me up to the base, and I just felt at home and like I could ...
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HR just asked for my degree. I don't have it yet. What do I do?
A bit of background on this - I had this job interview in the fall of my senior year of college (on-campus interview). At the time, my expected graduation was spring 2019, and I had that on my resume. ...
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What should I do if my contract has ended and my company still hasn't renewed it?
Just a backstory, I'm a fresh grad who applied for a junior developer position from small company and got offered a project-based job, which I accepted hesitantly. I am new to the industry and I don't ...
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Responding to social invitations with autism
So I have been told that there will be a Christmas Party happening at my work. I have autism I really do not like this sort of thing.
This is my first ever job and I am really enjoying it. I have ...
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Insomnia, first shift. Should I quit without two weeks?
So a little backstory to this (little personal but I'll spare most of the details). I just graduated high school and I work at McDonalds (This is my first job). At home, it's just me, my dad, and my ...
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I’m a decent coder but not a native English speaker, can I get a job without having job experience nor being fluent?
Is it possible for me to get a job in web development while I’m a decent coder (by decent go read notes on Update) even though my English is not perfect (Is not my native language), and there so much ...
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Fired from job - left my Gmail, Stack Exchange, LinkedIn, and other personally owned accounts logged in. How do I proceed?
I left my company on bad terms yesterday. I was ordered to leave immediately, take my documents, never come back to the company, and even to never meet my boss in life outside work.
The problem is ...
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How to answer "What makes you best fit for this role"?
This happened last Monday. I was interviewing for a Financial & Risk Advisory position at one of the big 4 Accounting firms. Everything went well but I messed it up at the very last question of ...
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First job out of college and it's unrelated to degree - what to do with resume?
I'm updating my resume to include my first job out of college. What I went to school for, and the job I ended up in, are different enough that previous experience counts for little more than proving ...
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Suggestions on job hunting for a new CS graduate [closed]
I just graduated from my CS masters degree and am trying to find job. I have no prior work experience and I am in a pretty confused state about what I should be doing.
I was told to do leetcode by a ...
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I received better job offer, should I move on? [closed]
I recently accepted a job offer in software engineering and my salary is reasonable. I have been working for five weeks, until I was offered a job from a top-tier company with 50% higher salary this ...
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Graduated from University; where to put my portfolio?
I wrote my exercises on university by computers. I studied mathematics, physics, and computer science.
Now I have many LaTeX files on my computer and a memory stick. Is it wise to show at least some ...
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Quitting job right before probation ends
I'm a fresh grad with no job experience but have a hands on skill that I think makes me job ready. I did applied for a job, got selected, got offered a paid internship in order to access me atleast 3 ...
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How Could I Start Applying For a Job As a Minor?
So before I ask my question, I'd like to give you some background so you'd understand my situation better. I'm currently a high school(I'll be attending grade 10 although I'm 15) but over the last ...
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Having to constantly redo everything because I don't know how to do it
I obtained a biostatistics/pharmaceuticals job without any further education than college, so I think this is the cause of that.
I don't have some supervisor. Lack of experience and education. I'm ...
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What to wear for job interview [duplicate]
I am currently a PhD at a decent university in Math and applying for a part time grad student job in a Fintech company in one of the major centers for finance. I applied for the job by responding to ...
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What do I put on my resume to make the company I'm applying to think I'm mature enough to handle a job?
I just turned 14 this past fall, which means I can legally work a job.
I've applied to several places, fluffing up my resume with everything I think could possibly help me, things showing i'm ...
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Sending multiple applications to many companies and leaving if I get a better opportunity
After a little Google and five pages of this site's "leaving" tag, I still don't know if this is prudent: I've already sent out several applications and have not been called in for any interviews. ...
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Junior developer struggles: how to communicate with management?
I learnt programming at home and was a brilliant bootcamp graduate (that is, by the standards of that bootcamp, which is certainly not as good as top US bootcamps*), I found a job fairly easily ...
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Leaving first career job after 2 years of experience without any offer in hand and take a break of 3 months
I am 25 years old with 24 months of experience as a software developer in a startup. I took this role rejecting all other good paying jobs due to awesome projects. But now I feel my current role is ...
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How does a person decide whether it is valuable to complete two complementary Master's Degrees back to back? [closed]
I'm using my circumstances as an example.
I don't have a strong Bachelors (it's in Math this past year) nor three strong letters of recommendation. I am 25 years old in the USA and have not held a ...
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My boss hasn't called me in to work in a week even though he said he would, what should I do?
I recently got a job at a coffee shop.
I've worked 5 shifts in two weeks and my boss seemed to like me. He said my first paycheck would come in next week (this week) last Wednesday which was my last ...
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It is bad to sign in a company while you are waiting to another to call you, and then leave it? [closed]
I was unemployed about 3 months, and I send my information a lot of companies.
I was interested in one in particular, here called as A company, but the never reply my emails. After a certain time I ...
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How to choose between first, out-of-college, software development careers? [closed]
Fresh out of college in a few months, and I have three job offers to contemplate and decide which team I'll be joining.
One company pays a very high (close to 6 figures) salary but appears to be work-...
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Have the company dropped the ball with me as a junior developer?
I've recently started my first job as a programmer (I'm currently one month in) at quite a small company and for my first assignment I got paired with a senior developer to work on a minor project, ...
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Should I work extra time because everyone else does? [closed]
I work as a software developer in a small startup (15 people including the CEO/founder and all employees) which sells a SaaS product to businesses.
We "officially" work from 9:30am to 6:30pm (8 hours ...
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Is it recommended that I also apply to jobs I may not be much interested in? [closed]
I'm pretty bad at interviews and was wondering what was the "best" first job. I would prefer to stay within Canada.
And through internships and side projects am quite comfortable with front-end, back-...
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As an early-career software developer, how important is first employer "brand recognition" to my resume? [closed]
I am a Computer Science Master's student in the US, and I am in the good position of having choices of jobs to take after graduation.
On the one hand, I have interviewed with a few local companies. I ...
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How is somebody without work references supposed to get a job? [closed]
I am a double major in finance and statistics from UT austin and nobody is even interested in interviewing me for an entry level position in accounting/analysis because I have no work references. My ...
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Stuck in a toxic environment, Co-worker unjustly fired and don't know what to do [closed]
I've been working a job at a startup for almost two months now, and I've been getting more and more uncomfortable with my work situation. My boss is often difficult to work with, and recently he had ...
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Rectify asked salary for first job
I am currently finishing my internship for the last year of my engineering Master's degree.
Many recruiters/companies have already contacted me and I started the recruiting process with a few of them....
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Job title not matching the job activity
I have recently landed my first professional job as an contract equity research analyst at a small firm through a friend. Generally speaking, such role requires one to have completed at least a ...
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Unofficial meeting during house hunting trip
I will start a new job in a month. I just came to the city yesterday (where I will work) for house-hunting, and I am staying at a hotel very close to my office location. I will be here for three days ...
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