Questions tagged [new-job]
Questions about starting a new job, the etiquette required, and potential pitfalls involved.
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How to repair my relationship with management after accidentally getting access to a confidental document?
For context, I have been working here a month and requested access to an employee evaluation form I wasn't supposed to have access to. My skip skip level manager told my manager, and she started ...
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What do I say about my previous job, which was horrible, in a new job interview? [duplicate]
Last year I worked as contractor for company C for one of their projects. Long story short: It was pure hell.
(The HR company that hired me informed me incorrectly about the job being Java ...
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How do you ask about job position number one after interviewing for job position number two?
I'm more interested in position one but got an interview for position two. I would like to have a shot at position one, so how do I ask about the application status of position one when I just got ...
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How do I provide hyperlinks on my resume?
I am a new graduate and starting to apply for jobs. While designing my resume, I decided to include links for the code samples that I have worked on (I have pushed them on GitHub, for example). I have ...
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How to say 'no' to more work?
How can I say 'No' (politely or in a very smart way) to extra work after work time? How can I say no to work that isn’t my responsibility but my manager keeps throwing at me?
I’m terrible at ...
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Committing for a shorter time than employer wants
I have been offered a job as a junior software engineer (with little to no previous experience) in a scale up.
I have not accepted yet, as it turns out they have a very restrictive non compete clause ...
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I felt mistreated during the interview. How should I proceed?
In this round, we discussed the technical solutions I provided. I am confident in my expertise in this area.
While the interviewer pointed out some minor errors, which I anticipated due to the time ...
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Am I getting "scammed"? (Job Search)
I am currently in the software dev job market. Been applying for about 2 months now. Two days ago I receive:
"We appreciate your interest in the [----] position.
Your application was approved ...
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Signed an offer but manager not responding
Signed an offer and gave notice to my current company. My start date will be next Monday. According to the offer package, my manager should get in touch with me before I start. I am so stressful since ...
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How to figure out exactly what will be expected at a new workplace and face it [closed]
I have been working at a state university as a lecturer, actually in a senior position (on contract though) because I have a post graduate qualification as well, completed with a research component.
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Should I be more accomodating than usual during my probation period or should I try to work as if I'm not on the probation period? [closed]
I am starting a new job with a probation period. What I wanted to know was: Should I be more accommodating than usual during my probation period or should I try to work as if I'm not on the probation ...
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How can I improve my chances of getting a job in Europe as a Resident Third-Country-National?
The backstory
I'm a mid-senior level UX designer. I moved to an Eastern-European Schengen country from South-East Asia six months ago because I'm married to an EU citizen. My resident permit lets me ...
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Manager did not give clear answer when I asked for a day off
I recently started a new job. I asked my manager if I could take a day off next week for a family obligation. He said I hadn't been with the company long enough to use my vacation time. I found this a ...
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Should I deliberately work less to reduce expectations if my manager is giving me higher work load? [closed]
This question is a followup of another question I asked a month back: How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
What has happened since then?
As expected, I have been given a ...
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Handling a Refactoring Project with Limited Access to Source Code
I apologize if this isn't the correct place to ask this question, but I'm hoping to get some insight from the community on a problem I'm facing.
I recently finished an interview with a company as a ...
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Coworker keeps telling me where to sit. How can I handle this?
I recently started a new job.
My coworker who sometimes works from home asked me which desk I sit at when he is not there. I told him at the same desk I normally do. He told me that needs to change, ...
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Worker from another department offered to show me around because I'm new. Now his manager is involved and things feel formal
Recently I started a new job. My position is tech support. I didn't know this until I started the job, but it seems like the company places no value on streamlining things. There's a wide diversity of ...
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In a new job when is it good to ask questions about the company and its systems vs mind my own business?
In some of my past jobs I had gotten the feedback that I asked too many questions. Or that I asked them in the wrong way. To be clear I only got this feedback occasionally. I have since taken ...
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How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
I joined a new job two weeks ago where I was hired after an interview based on generic JavaScript programming knowledge with my past work experience close to two years. For the initial 12 days, I was ...
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How to respond when companies ask me why you are applying for a different role job when you're already employed in another role job?
I currently work as system administrator in fintech company. Recently I applied for QA trainee role in another top company of Nepal(better than current one-if it matters, but I don't really care about ...
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How long should a person stay at a new job if they don't like it?
I started a new job about 6 weeks ago. Though it's difficult to point to a single reason, I don't like going to work. On one hand I want to give the job a fair chance and realize that things do change....
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Haven't been getting breaks at work and need them
I’ve rewritten this question several times as I’m having trouble phrasing it and will try to keep it short and to the point.
I recently started working as an auxiliary employee at a chain of ...
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Manager not telling me in advance where I'll be working
I started a new job about a month ago. I'm in the IT department of a medium sized company. They have two offices that are relatively close together. When I accepted the job I understood that I would ...
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Consultancy Company vs Getting Hired By Client
Suppose a person works for a business consulting company for a client company and that client company offers him a full time position.
In most cases, would it be best just to take the offer from the ...
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What are employers looking for when they ask to see sample code during the hiring process for a programmer?
I have gotten requests to submit code samples (from past work completed) but I have never really understood what precisely these employees are looking for.
Do they care how complex they think the past ...
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Excessive Demands Prior to Start Date
I recently accepted a job offer from a startup but declined their request to start immediately after leaving my previous job because I needed some downtime. Currently, I am on a break. However, ...
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Is it legal for an employer in California to ask for another form of ID when you already provided ID from List A (passport) for Form I-9?
I recently applied, and was hired, for a retail position. When I was completing the onboarding forms online, I entered my ssn and I selected which form of ID I would present them at the store. The ...
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Company wants to see offer letter received from another company to match salary
I love my job but I've been offered a job at a different company with slightly more salary. As I was in two minds to take the offer, I discussed with my current company if there is anything that can ...
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As my first job, how can I gain the most out of my mentor, a senior engineer?
I am three weeks into my first software engineering job at a software company in Canada working on a windows desktop application in C++. My work consists of fixing newly reported bugs in the software, ...
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How serious is it that my new teammates didn't show up to a meeting I set up that they agreed to attend?
I started a new job as a senior developer five weeks ago. I have worked with a one of my colleagues and two of my managers at a previous company, so I'm not a totally unknown quantity at this new ...
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New job project 100,000s lines of code with no low level documentation [closed]
OK. So I have joined a new organization as RTL engineer (FPGA/ASIC front end work). The design that I shall be working on is literally 100,000s of lines of VHDL code and several dozens of very large ...
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How do vacation days work for a summer job?
I'm in High School and want to take a lifeguarding job over the summer. The training consists of about 40 hours separated into 1 2 hour lesson a week. I've already attended about 4 so I've put in a ...
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How to find motivation to keep applying to jobs after being rejected
I have had a lot of trouble getting a permanent job that uses my degree (Computer Science). I find applying for jobs unpleasant and stressful. Sometimes I spend a couple days writing a custom cover ...
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Data Analyst new role - culture shock at new place
I recently changed from a 4 year consulence as Data Engineer in a big consultancy firm to a Data Analyst Role with Tableau and PowerBi in another consultancy company for a stable contract.
In previous ...
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How much will it hurt my career progression to take ~1 month of medical leave 3 months into a new job? [closed]
I just accepted a job offer as a software engineer at a medium-size company which is known for being very selective with hiring (more difficult to get into than the average FAANG company) and having ...
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Finding a career as a researcher without any PhD, work experience, and relevant academic degree
I recognize myself as an "Independent Researcher", however, I have no relevant academic degree in the field in which I research (physics, esp., relativity, and electromagnetism). I just have ...
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Is a long delay between hiring and start date normal?
About 3 and a half weeks ago I accepted a seasonal, entry level position at a fitness organisation. Since then, I haven't received any information about my start date or job training. On the two ...
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How to respond to, "How long will this take?" when in a new job position
I started a new job two weeks ago using technologies that are new to me. I was upfront from the start about what I did and did not know so there's no surprises.
I do a little of everything and so I ...
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I feel like I am kind of being called out publicly for a mistake I made. Should I bring this up with my superiors or is it no big deal?
This is my first job and I'm just about a month in. My workplace uses an app for staff to communicate with each other, and on this app a group chat has been made including myself and everyone in my ...
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Why is it bad to use personal pronouns in a CV?
I am applying for a new job, and I am rubbish at writing CVs, so I often have a look at the examples and templates on-line, and it says that you should use not use personal pronouns in these examples.
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Starting at a competitor while owning equity of previous employer
Assume an employee at startup company X has bought a small equity stake (<1%) in this company (we are not talking about granted equity but shares that have been bought at the current valuation of ...
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Is it normal for a company to ask for a photo ID when finishing my new-hire paperwork?
I've been hired by a company recently and now they're finishing my paperwork. Today, I was asked to provide a photo ID. I'm going to use a picture of my license. I want to make sure this is normal ...
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How to ask new boss for contract with new start date?
After signing the contract, my start date was delayed by a month to 1st February but I still haven't received a contract with the new start date. I mentioned this when I had lunch recently with my ...
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Benefits and risks of telling new employers I have a heart problem I am recovering from
What are the benefits and risks of telling new employers I have a heart problem I am recovering from?
If it was you would you tell new employers?
I work as a software engineer.
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New job: how to successfully transition from honeymoon to real world?
I just started a new job. It took the company a while to find somebody with my background, and as a result everybody is ecstatic about having me. My colleagues take me for lunch, all senior bosses are ...
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How to approach meeting with new boss after I delayed start date due to medical reasons
I was set to start a new job, but had to postpone due to medical reasons.
New boss scheduled a short meeting after postponing my January start date by a month.
Should I be worried and if he asks do I ...
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Exclusively telephonic conversations before an offer letter and no email?
A little background: I'm a job seeker in the pharmaceutical industry ,and have a bachelor degree in pharmacy followed by an M. Tech degree in Biotechnology) and have been applying to more or less ...
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How to talk about depression in interviews
I am a "new grad", looking for graduate roles at companies.
In my sophomore and junior years, I was a victim of clinical depression (due to conditions created by the pandemic).
Interviewers ...
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If I sign a job offer while on PTO, should I give notice as soon as I sign it or when I come back to work?
I am not sure if I should contact HR while on PTO just to give notice.
Contractually specified notice period is three weeks. If I wait till I come back, I will be giving them notice period of three ...
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If there's a delay caused by a background check and the start date needs to be pushed back, should a new contract or contract amendment be signed?
I told them I need to give my current employer a notice period of three weeks. Then I received an offer letter with a start date which respects that. The offer letter says it is subject to background ...
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