Questions tagged [professionalism]

Questions referring to how one presents themselves and interacts with others in a professional environment

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I think I am micromanaged. What should I do?

I've been in a big company for several years and recently had a new manager coming in. He is pretty senior in terms of working years, but he didn't work in big corporations before and I feel this is ...
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Coworker posted private chat message in a public group

Background: I have been working with a coworker on a project these past few weeks. I was responsible for the upstream portion for data engineering (made-up timeline). At week 3, the coworker raised ...
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How should I explain my plans to exit my new job to my manager and recruiters?

I understand it may seem unprofessional and indecisive to decide to leave a job very shortly after starting, but the situation is relatively messy and was through no action of my own. I've been ...
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Is it rude to reply to an email where I'm not being addressed but was CC'd?

Sometimes I get emails where the emails says: Hi [SomePersonNotMyself] do you know what is causing this issue? This is an email CC'd to me but the person is not specifically asking for my help. ...
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How to deal with a coworker who only wants to communicate via video conference

For context I work remotely at a fully remote company as an independent contributor. Like many others I find video calls to be a big distraction from my day to day work. Of course, in many situations ...
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Called Dr. in government setting? [closed]

I work in local government (law enforcement) in the US, where titles are pretty important. I am a civilian supervisor with a doctorate degree. No one else there has this degree. I completed it two ...
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Professional relationship and friendship with the same person

I live in a city with very difficult (and expensive) rent situation. I rent an apartment and I have some loans to pay off. To share the costs (and to make some profit), I decided to look for a ...
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How should I have handled this wardrobe mishap?

I recently attended a lab session at my university. The lab instructor was dressed professionally in a dress shirt and dress pants. But I noticed that in certain positions, due to the lighting in the ...
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Can I put a killed project on my resume? [duplicate]

Over the past year, I had been gradually working on a project to set up a locally-hosted bug tracker for use within the company. It was essentially complete within a few months, but finishing touches ...
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How to politely decline a take-home test task

I recently applied for a software engineering job and the company responded back with a take-home test task which, in their words, should take between 2 to 3 hours. Currently, I'm about 2 and a half ...
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What is the best professional certificate for Digital Transformation? [closed]

First of all, I searched for the right site to ask this question and ended up with this site. So, if you think there is a better site to post this question please let me know. I have been asked by my ...
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How to communicate a problem with a speaker Info. form that got disabled after I sent it to the speakers via email professionally?

I am organizing a virtual conference, and I sent the speakers a form done on jotform to collect their info for the talk. Unfortuantely, the form got disabled by the company by a mistske and I ...
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Is it reasonable to be frustrated about being siloed in a project?

I transitioned to a new company as an software engineer 2. I was put on a single project months ago where the problem statement was given to me, but it was up to me to shape the problem, do the ...
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Got let go with 2 weeks notice being asked to share ideas and strategies for company [closed]

I just got let go from the company, was withheld discretionary bonus, not given a reason I was let go. Yet I'm being asked to share project details and strategies I've been working on in two meetings ...
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How to get better at taking constructive criticism

I'm not sure how to phrase this, but I think I can be overly sensitive and take things too personally. One example was I forwarded an email to someone I work with. I didn't know their account was ...
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Professionalism: As an interviewee, how can I create an interview process, where both sides negotiate and communicate as equals?

There is an old saying that a job interview is a two-way street. Both employer and employee can get a picture of each other and finally decide. As an IT professional, it is now often the case that you ...
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How to keep good professional relationship with manager whom I like

I have a team lead who is very rude and unprofessional. I joined a new company and was mentally abused a lot before I complained to my manager about him. The team lead has been promoted to my manager ...
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Should I meet my boss when I travel to his/her country?

I have been working with my boss for a few years, and since COVID, I have been working remotely from my home country. So, I met regularly with my boss pre-COVID; now is just zoom meetings. I am ...
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I'm in charge of a project, but one of the directors disapproves it. How should I approach the CEO about this?

I'm the General Manager of a medical device company based in Spain, which has a "complicated" product. That means it has a lot to deal with in terms of local laws and market culture. I'm in ...
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What to do about being loaded with much more work than colleagues?

I work as a public school teacher. Starting this year, the principal started assigning staff to various committees. Each are responsible for different tasks, such as writing newsletters, organizing ...
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How do you handle a coworker who does not know how to work in a team? [closed]

I've been seven months in a small company of thirty people, I work with another guy, who also happens to be one of the first employees of the company, in the same project. This guy does not use the ...
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How to deal with old-school administrators not understanding my methods

I am a mid-career teacher at a public school in the USA. I'm the most senior and highest-paid teacher in my school and, until recently, was very satisfied with the job. Admin respected me, and largely ...
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I was lucky to get a job out of nowhere, it is killing me now, what should I do now? [closed]

I was working in a high-tech company after my PhD and randomly one day one of my suppliers called me and asked me if I wanted to join them. By that time was fed up with my job. The supplier company ...
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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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Co-worker commenting on my clothing? what do I do?

I have just started a new role as a workplace health and safety officer. Recently, I travelled to a different work location for an important safety meeting. In this meeting was a couple of my ...
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No/Delayed Promotion

I have been working in a start-up. I started out as a designer despite having 7 years experience. Some time after I joined, the startup started looking for a senior designer with 4+ years of ...
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Meeting was rescheduled but I didn't receive an invite

A meeting needed to be rescheduled due to someone not being able to make it. There was discussion of a specific time, as if an invite was to be sent out. I didn't receive it. It could be an oversight ...
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How to tell current internship that I've signed elsewhere after graduation?

First post here so bear with me if I forget some rules. Background: I'm a senior in college remotely interning part-time at Company A. The internship offer letter from Company A said that it's set to ...
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How to tactfully decline overtime caused by bad decisions?

Situation: I've been hired as a senior software engineer in a small team to support an existing project where the coding is done by employees without software engineering background and without IT ...
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Junior engineer initiating counselling sessions to offer unsolicited advice to senior employees

I am a senior individual (i.e. hiring and firing power) in a large tech company. The job is stressful, though we actually pay well, which makes this place attractive to younger engineers. One team ...
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Interview at 60? [closed]

How does one prepare to go into an office (not a real socialized person) and ask someone half my age for a job that pays half of what I'm worth per hour that I'm overqualified for?
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Problematic Employee [closed]

A San Francisco (SFO) company wanted to have an Asian coverage and sent (forced) an Employee X to start its Asian setup, and after six months was supposed to return to SFO. Six months became three ...
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Should I Ask My Employer If They Are Planning To Phase Me Out?

My title is the "Vice-President of Technology", but that's mostly just to look good on a business card. I've actually been the entirety of my IT Department for most of my nearly fifteen ...
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How to convince workplace I'm innocent [closed]

I'm in a bit of a predicament. Last week, an e-mail went out to boss and a few others from my e-mail address. It contained a number of rude remarks and strange insults. Of course, I did NOT send ...
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Multiple quotes from same company [closed]

I am currently in the process of getting quotes for a new access control system at my place of employment. One of the companies has the system we would like to use but my experiences with the sale rep ...
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Leading a two people project, I feel like the other person isn't pulling their weight or is actively silently quitting or obstructing it

I was put in charge of a non-trivial project that requires me and another medior/senior engineer, I don't think it matters but we are talking about embedded systems. I was explicitly defined as the ...
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How to confirm and handle double standards in promotions?

I joined about nine months ago a company where I started a new position in a computer science R&D department, which itself properly began several months before that. In this department are three ...
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Should I follow up with my application email?

I am a master's student applying for a job that, on its description, doesn't require experience. I have sent an email to their "careers@XXX.ca" mailbox with my 2-page resume (here is the ...
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Shared Office Space - Noisy Team

Based in Greater London UK and working in a shared office space where companies can rent desks for individuals or teams. Being two in the same location we have two adjacent desks. There are many ...
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Accepted Offer, What to do About Remaining Interview?

I've accepted an offer recently, and have let most of the other companies know that I accepted. However, there is one company that I've applied to many times over the years, which would be a dream to ...
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Is it reasonable to ask for a reference from your internship supervisor who wants you to return?

I am currently interviewing with a company who is asking me to provide references for them to call. I am thinking of asking my supervisor from my most recent internship for a reference because I don't ...
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Is there a polite and professional way to decline answering personal question?

Throwaway account. I'm originally from Russia. While I've spent most of my professional life in one of the western countries, I didn't manage to fully lose my accent. This always prompts people to ask ...
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Should I resend an application to give a shorter resume?

Almost 24 hours ago, I submitted an application for an engineering job through that company's email using a resume template that I used when I was applying for internships as a 3rd year university ...
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My (large) employer hasn't registered an obvious misspelling of their primary domain URL

I have recently joined a non-IT department of a large (>10,000 employee), say called "Kirby Matthews". Their main domain is kirbymatthews.com, but I received an internal email which had a ...
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Leaving because of a coworker - professional way to explain (or not) reasons?

I am a software developer planning to leave my current job in December, unless something significant changes. This is entirely because of a single coworker within a small team, whom I think is harming ...
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Co-worker always asks me to do small things when they aren't my responsibility

I have a co-worker who will very often ask me to do things he could easily do himself, when they are not my responsibility. Often something like this. Him: "Hey, I wanted to talk to you and Jim ...
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Annoying unprofessional private slack channel at work

One of my colleagues recently created a private slack channel and invited all the non-admin-level people at our location to it. About 70% of the time people chatting in it just communicate about ...
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Emailing coworker during bereavement time

One of my coworkers, coworker A, recently lost a family member and is on leave. The details of the leave were not discussed with us. We were only informed of the death. I reached out to my coworker ...
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Should I contact the company directly if the recruitement agent is not contacting me? (UK)

I was contacted by a recruiting agent, who suggested a graduate role and everything went smoothly. Had a telephonic hr interview, a technical online interview, and face to face presentation interview. ...
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How to work with a boss who procrastinates and provides no opinion until the last moment?

I work in India in healthcare sales. I am very goal-oriented and a person who is particular with my work. I don't like the idea of deadlines and my work is finished way before the deadline. For the ...

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