Questions tagged [hiring-process]
Questions relating to the employment process for a new employee.
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Will I lose my job by saying I can't work certain hours? [closed]
So I've been trying incredibly hard to try to get this job since before the pandemic and I am finaly able to start working after completing a slew of trainings.
The problem is I'm still in highschool ...
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Is it ok to use informal contractions (wanna, gotta, kinda) in an interview?
Next week, I have an interview, in English, with a company from the USA and I would like to know if I should use terms when I speak like: "wanna", "gotta", "gonna", "...
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Withdraw from hiring process after unprofessional behavior from interviewer
I was recently interviewed for a software engineering position. This was a second round interview and I was told to prepare for general CS knowledge and system design questions.
When the interview ...
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How to nudge employer for offer letter
So things went like below:
I was contacted by a recruiter for developer role. He asked me my details and if I am interested in the position. I replied to them with affirmation.
Few days passed and I ...
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Denied job, possibly since I am outside the country
I am a software developer looking to change current jobs. I went through a round of many interviews (all online) with a company that is stateside, plus received positive feedback on all of the ...
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Is it appropriate to contact the current employee regarding a job he is employed to do?
I recently applied for a role at a big firm in London. At the time of applying, I couldn't find recruiting managers contact details, so I just wrote a generic cover letter. I came across the ...
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Asking for followup during an interview process?
I recently applied for a company. I was contacted by their recruiter on Linkedin. I had a short interview with the recruiter (basically the "english filter", as english is required and this ...
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Post job-interview: are my actions and the timeline outlined reasonable?
Question:
Could you please provide some feedback on the steps I have taken so far and plan to take after my job interview? Should I wait a little longer?
Context:
Contacted on LinkedIn by an internal ...
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What to do in case of multiple job offers? [duplicate]
If I am interviewing for companies A and B, and company A makes me an offer but I don't want to commit without knowing the result of the process with company B, what is my best option?
Option 1: ...
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Following up on an old email from a recruiter
I received a job offer in late April from a foreign company. Due to the situation with COVID and the fact that at that time I was busy with my final degree project, I was told by the recruiter that it ...
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What if a company contacts you around your recruiter? [duplicate]
A few weeks ago, I was working with a recruiter for a role and right before the last interview, the company canceled and told the recruiter that they hired someone else. Two days later, the company ...
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Concerned about background check and weird employment history
So I recently just got an offer for a really cool company and I have one last concern: the background check. Long story short I worked at another company as a contract-to-hire on a ridiculously long 4 ...
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How to turn down older programmers during interviews? [closed]
When hiring for startup what are some methods of filtering out older (27+) developers ? During interviewing we had few older developers stubbornly "get through" even though we explicitly ...
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What does your boss ask your references you put on your application?
I took a test for a job, and got a 76%.The job is an entry level tutoring position for high school or college students. The test is a process for hiring people for a job. You have to pass the test in ...
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Resumes: How to discuss “growing out of incompetence” in a positive light?
Some background
I'm currently entering my second year at university and I'm a computer science major. I did 4 years of FIRST Robotics FRC in high school, where I learned how to program robots using a ...
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Manager is hiring a new software engineer but wont let me help in hiring [closed]
I'm a sr. Software engineer on a small team. I have a great boss (not micro manager), but he is a non technical manager which is completely fine. We are really short on developers and after great ...
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How can I possibly convince an employer to hire me despite the fact that I've never had a job before in my life (35 years old)?
I have done a lot of research on this (reading other answers asked by others), and just want to follow up on some points.
I went to university in my early 20s and the took a different path. I have a ...
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Making my dream company take a competing high offer seriously
There are two major companies I am considering: A and B. I applied to both for a senior manager role. Both have given me verbal offers to join their companies, however in different circumstances. Both ...
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Are the extra sections Stack Overflow adds to its resume useful?
I recently discovered that Stack Overflow has a section for jobs and it also builds your resume so you can download it. Since I was in school I was told to be concise and put only the necessary stuff ...
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Multiple job listings in same company yet they suggest only the lower/less desired one - how to avoid
I'm currently working for as a tech lead and responsible for a whole team while doing hands-on work as well. In my organization, people are first selected and interviewed by their level, profile, and ...
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Should I re-establish contact with an opportunity that seems to have fizzled?
Back in February, I interviewed with a company for new position. It seemed like a great fit and the interviews on the day all seemed to go well. After the interviews, the hiring manager told me the ...
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Part of salary from gross revenue
I'm about to negotiate the dollars on a long-term project.
What i want is to get part of my salary as a percentage of the gross revenue.
So, it's gross revenue - not gross profit or stock options ...
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I feel Interview day went badly, what could I do to get more chances? [closed]
Context: I applied to a company and I have real passion and interest to join this company. I am interested in their mission, in the industry, in the position, and I feel myself I am capable of doing a ...
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Role of team members in increasing the team capacity
So, I am in a team where everyone is overloaded with 1-2 hours of work every day. This has become the norm and everyone has accepted it.
And yet, there is a lot of backlog in the project. So, the ...
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Is it acceptable to apply to graduate positions as a professional in a related field?
I am an electronics design engineer with 3 1/2 years experience mainly focussed on circuit design at the PCB level who is interested in getting into digital design/VHDL. There is a fair amount of ...
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Scheduling interviews far out
I recently had a phone interview with a big N company for an entry level technical position. I received an email today saying that they weren't sure about moving me to the next step so they wanted to ...
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What is the point of the HR questions during programmer interview? [closed]
Seriously, there is a set of HR questions which are IMO plain stupid and pretty ridiculous. I had interview today for a position which was 1000% match on my CV in my opinion one of two options ...
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Company HR asking questions on my hiring process, should I worry?
I was hired by my current employer about 4 years ago. At that time, the company was very compartmentalized: every division had its own HR, its own administration, its own management, its own ...
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Can I ask to work remotely for a job I am applying for?
I am applying for a new job in Australia, where most companies that can (including my current company and the one I am applying to) are working remotely full time due to coronavirus. The job I am ...
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Is it legal for a potential employer to run background checks on members of your household?
Update: The commission has been disbanded and has 90 days to leave NJ, and it is only a matter of time before they leave NY as well.
I know an individual who is trying to get a labor job in NYC. ...
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Potential employer wants to talk to friends of a candidate
A potential employer of my best friend recently asked to speak to his friends during the hiring process. Of course I agreed yet it sounds incredibly weird to me, I have never heard of such practices ...
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How do companies know so much personal information about you?
I had applied to work at a grocery store. Part of the online hiring process was to fill out some questions that prove I am who I claim I am. I guess this was an alternative to showing someone your ID. ...
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Recruitment agencies not giving a fair chance to applicants
I have recently applied for a few jobs through recruitment agencies and i was left a little unimpressed with how they handled my applications
In one case the job was advertised with a note "recent ...
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Company was offering paid internships, but is now in a hiring freeze; do I suggest candidates consider unpaid?
My company was offering two paid internships (hourly rate, no benefits) to students in Masters programs. We found an excellent candidate early on, who I will call C1. When their interview process was ...
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interview exam anxiety
I'll be coding as part of a technical interview process.
I'm highly skilled-- wrote&aced many complex systems/algorithms also in technical interviews over the years, spoke before audiences, etc. ...
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Finding a job with non certificates after PhD
I'm a PhD student in my first year. My field is biology but I've been using python and some libraries such us: Numpy, Pandas, statistics, SciPy and BeautifulSoup for analyzing, processing and ...
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How do you continue to engage and recruit new employees during the pandemic?
Our company believes that the pandemic will create new opportunities within certain industries and the workforce will re-organize in order to meet the new demand. We want to continue recruiting, so it ...
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What's the correct way to proceed to ensure this job offer is legit?
Too long won't read: contacted on Linkedin, moved conversation to Telegram, saw many red flags during selection process as my skills not being properly validated, but received what appears to be a ...
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How to apologize for responding late to an internship offer?
I had cold emailed an organization a couple of months ago in May to ask for an internship, and while they did not have openings then, they did contact me this February about an internship offering, ...
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How much personal information should I give to a recruiter?
I'm looking for a job right now, and I got all the standard questions, but they are asking for things I am not sure I should give out.
LinkedIn ID
Skype ID
Last 4 digits of my social security ...
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Suggesting to freelance for a design agency before applying for a job
A few months ago I decided I was going to leave my job at the design agency I was working for. I applied for a few other design agencies at the time that I liked the look of (even though none appeared ...
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What can I do when the employer keep delaying my start date with the excuse of applying work permit as I am a foreigner?
I accepted the offer from one of the companies which offer me to work with them. I accepted their offer in the mid of January but the employer kept saying that the work permit is yet to be approved. ...
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How to respond to “are you open to a permanent position”?
I'm just out of school so this is my first run in with a recruiter and I am a bit confused with the language they are using (English is my 2nd language).
A recruiter contacted me and asked if I was "...
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Potential recruiting scam
This post was moved from the Personal Finance and Money Stack Exchange website.
I received an email from a person (let's call him John Milton just in case this is not a scam) whose email address is ...
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Decline a job offer after acceptance due to visa problem
I accepted a job offer (online) last September. The employer is in Australia and is willing to sponsor my work visa application. I submitted my visa application last October, and provided additional ...
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Remote data science internship [closed]
I am pursuing my Ph.D. in Data Science. I am looking for a summer internship to gain industry experience. I don't see any internship opportunities in my area. It's just a small college town. Currently,...
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During hiring have to repeat test for a third time after passing it twice, what for?
I applied for a job.
During the application process, I was asking to accomplish an engineering test. I passed the test. Eventually I was offered the position but the HR was a bit unprofessional and ...
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What are the benefits of using a Recruitment Agency compared to direct application
Yesterday I received two independent calls from recruitment agencies that both included mention of the same position at a company.
This not only raises the question which recruitment agency I should ...
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Need to withdraw an application unless their HR changes their rules - how to do so?
I'm 3 months into the interview process for a pretty prestigious research lab. It'd be a great gig. The hiring manager has told me that my peer references were great and I'm by far the most qualified ...
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Company is asking for my documents, salary slip etc but not told me status of my application yet
I was interviewed by a company through 3rd party (Elitmus job portal) after 2 days I checked my status on Elitmus as "Not selected". Now after a week HR personally mailed me to fill a 4-page ...
