Questions tagged [recruitment]
The process of finding potential new employees.
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Is it ethical to apply directly for a job after a recruiter declines to submit you for the role?
Recruiter A contacted me about a job on LinkedIn. I said I was interested, and we set up a day for Recruiter A to call me to talk about the job. Recruiter A never called, never replied to LinkedIn ...
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Reputable vs personal reference vs let the company decide
The company I applied to is asking for references.
I have some options, and I am not sure which is best. They are along the line of "PhD student whom I collaborated rather closely on a project&...
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Is there any issue if I make my prior job title more generic on my resume? For ex: "Sr Marketing Associate" versus "Sr Digital Marketing Associate"
I am working on updating my resume, and I was thinking about changing how I present my prior job title(s). I want to make clear, I am NOT suggesting overstating my title (saying I was a Manager when I ...
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Is coming across as 'sweet' an issue in data science?
I recently made a career switch from marketing to data science. I want to be in data science because marketing gets a bit boring after a while since it doesn't take too much skill to be decent at it. ...
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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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Where do recruitment agencies find open positions?
I want to cut out the middlemen and work C2C for future contracts, but rarely see C2C positions posted. However there's no shortage of contract jobs from recruitment agencies and I would like to ...
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Why are 3rd party recruiters claiming to submit me to a hiring manager but not doing it? [closed]
Over the last 2 months I've had multiple recruiters interview me and then claim they are going to submit me for the job we discussed, they send me an email stating "I have submitted you for x job&...
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How do I qualify for employment as an IT project manager?
Currently i am a developer with around 6 years of development experience in various stacks.
I have a masters degree in computer science and have worked in several scrum teams, partially as scrum ...
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Dealing with recruiters who clearly didn't look at my resume
So today I opened my email and found another email from a recruiter who clearly did not look at my resume or any details about me. Here is the email (with PII removed):
Hi,
My name is [...
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HR make false promises before joining
I'm from India. I joined my new organisation 1 month ago.
Before joining recruiter/HR make promises that I will be working on the specific tool I’m only interested in but after joining manager and ...
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Should I point out a mistake in recruiter's LinkedIn headline?
A recruiter I'm corresponding with has a grammar mistake in their LinkedIn headline. When I speak to them about potential roles should I point this out? Of course, as tactfully as possible.
On the one ...
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Leaving a role after a short period when you're not happy
This is something I struggle with. My early career, due to naivety, was many short jobs, like a year or less. I can understand this looks bad, however, the whole point of a probation or a role is that ...
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Incentives to IT Engineers completing certifications successfully
I have a team of 6 IT engineers and would like to establish a good incentive model for them.
At the current state we are paying an amount to each certification acquired.
Is there any other way the ...
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Do Software Engineering degrees look considerably worse than Computer Science degrees on a resume?
Universities are starting to add Software Engineering degree pathways, but traditionally people have pursued Computer Science degrees if they want to do software engineering. From a recruiter or ...
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Employment agency Manager asking for my passwords for all programs
Can my manager ask for my passwords? I’ve been working for an employment agency (privately owned) for 2 weeks as a Recruiter Account Manager. I received an email from my manager, asking me to email ...
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Finding H1B Sponsorship as a Software Engineer
I'm a technical lead in the field of software engineering based in the UK.
My salary here is a fraction of what it would be in the US. So, it makes financial sense for me to move over there, for at ...
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Should I include non-technical degree and non-engineering experience in my software engineer CV?
I've got 10 years of experience as a software engineer contractor. Before that I happened to receive Masters of Medicine in a mediocre eastern Europe university. And before that I was repairing cars ...
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Asking for salary info after 1st interview?
A company reached out to me for an IT position.
Before the 1st interview I asked them what the salary range was, and they said that it isn’t shared or discussed until after the interview feedback is ...
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Applying for jobs, an offer is coming... and I do not know, it is the last or the best [duplicate]
Problem is the following. I applied recently for a lot of jobs (approx. 30), call them Company_1 to Company_30.
After many rejections, now an offer came from company Company_17. It is not very good (...
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Is getting an invitation to the office during interview process a good sign?
I’ve already gone through 3 interviews for a position and the hiring manager is inviting me stop by the office. The order of my interviews were abnormal (hiring manager, recruiter, SVP) brining ...
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which one would you say, I've passed my probation or employer extended? [closed]
Today it's been 3 months since I've started working for my company. Couple weeks ago I got a letter my salary will increase from July. And a few days ago I've been asked to take part in recruitment ...
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Job hunting while ongoing first project
So, I have been working at a company for 13 months and I really want to finish the project I'm working on. It's really just a good way to increase my experience and to prove my competences. And I'm ...
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Unfair reduction process
My wife has worked in a senior position for about 6 years. She is the most experienced person in the department and has high degree qualifications. This month, the company announced it will reduce ...
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How to renegotiate my salary request during the hiring process?
TLTR: I am in the hiring process and my salary expectation was based on incorrect assumptions, how should I renegotiate it during the hiring process?
Situation: I am currently in the recruiting ...
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Salary "red flags" spotted with industrial PhD sponsor
I'm currently doing a STEM PhD at a top UK university that is partly sponsored by a private company. I have had all sorts of indications from numerous people that working for that company once my PhD ...
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IT Certification to cover basic IT skills [closed]
Which well known IT certifications will cover the following (or get close to it)?
We need to extend our recruitment process with a technical assessment of the candidate, and would like to pass them on ...
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How to handle a long deliberate delay of a second job interview?
If a company confirms that you have entered the second interview soon after the initial interview, but refuses to give you a confirmed date & time for the next interview, which is delayed for a ...
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What to do in case of multiple job offers?
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?
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LinkedIn: Missing opportunities due to mismatch between job title and job function
My job title is Applications Engineer. In my role, however, I work fully as a Data Scientist. I have tried to indicate my job function in my LinkedIn profile in various ways, including in my Headline, ...
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Received a recruitment email from LinkedIn contact at my work email address (from CEO of another company) - how to respond?
A few weeks ago, I received an email at my work email address from someone outside my company asking if I had seen a post they had put up on LinkedIn about a role they are recruiting for at their ...
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Received a job offer email followed by rejection email [closed]
I received an email from the recruitment manager that my interview was successful however, few days later I received an email from the system that my interview was unsuccessful. I was really happy ...
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How does one handle name changes of employers on Linkedin work history?
Working in the IT field and having skills that are in demand, I have changed jobs quite a lot over the years. My Linkedin profile lists around a dozen positions. Due to mergers, acquisitions or just ...
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New employee: interested in internal position within the company
I live in Europe. I started working for a large company about 2 months ago via a recruitment agency. While browsing around LinkedIN, I stumbled on an interesting position for a different department in ...
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Can online activism hurt my employability?
Since the FCC repealed the net neutrality rules on the US, telecom companies in emerging countries are preparing to pressure politicians to do the same. I happen to live in an emerging country, and ...
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Interview aptitude tests: the questions do not make sense, why do workplaces use these?
Recruitment processes often ask to take logical aptitude tests. Here's one such example of a test question:
The goal is to replace the question mark with the image that fits.
I went with Image D, ...
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Advice please: recruiter spilled too much of the beans and I don't want to jeopardize their career
A really large company very actively recruited me, and is planning on flying me out soon, however, I don't want to interview and no one is answering the phone/email for me to cancel the flights/rental/...
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Recruiter requesting driver license for initial job offer
So a recruiter from a staffing company is asking me for my driver's license in order to submit me to a company(The State of Washington supposedly) and setup an initial interview. My issue comes from ...
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Reimbursement for time-consuming recruitment process?
I am in process of being hired by a company - after 3h of recruitments we have came to agreement, signed it, and I am starting work next month.
Work profile is that I will be 'borrowed' to other ...
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Is it a good idea to put Summary in place of Objective in your resume?
I've seen lots of resume which has it's first section called "Objective" which (usually) states your career plan as to what you want to be, and what kind of position you're looking for.
I ...
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How to respond to a direct ask of salary earned and expectations?
What is the best way to fill out an application form for a role with an unspecified salary expectation where the following questions are mandatory to complete in a pre-interview form:
What is your ...
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Is a cover letter really necessary?
With so many posts about recruiters not really having enough time to look at the resume, I was wondering how ( or if ) cover letters really play a significant role in the decision process. How do ...
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How do I ask my manager for a Intern to Full Time Employee Conversion?
So, it's been 6 weeks since my internship started. It's gonna end in like 4 weeks. I have a mid internship review coming up which would be like a 1:1 with my manager. So I am planning to know his ...
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A recruiter asked for my resume in a non-PDF format. Should I be concerned?
A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn and indicated that he was impressed by my skillset. He asked for my resume, BUT he asked for it in a non-PDF format. I find that a strange request, because I've ...
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Looking for a job while being new in the current position
A friend of mine was hired recently by a company (a couple of weeks ago). She applied to another position recently in a different company and she will have an interview soon.
We were discussing this ...
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Are applications to a general applicant pools useful?
Recently I've noticed many large employers have in their career portal the possibility to apply to a "General applicant pool" when postings may not be relevant for a candidate, but where the ...
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Do employers often advertise jobs that do not exist?
This article contains the following claim:
Often employers advertise jobs that don’t exist, hoping to find people
who might be useful later on or in a different context.
The article is decrying ...
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If a job that I applied to through a recruiter is reposted through another recruiter and the company's website, can/should I reapply?
I applied to a job posting through a recruiter. They told me they would submit my application and provide me feedback. They then fell off the map completely, and didn't respond to my follow ups.
The ...
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How could I better filter out job candidates who are trying to “extort” a better salary from their current employer
First-time poster and also first-time software hiring manager 😃
People are looking for jobs for different reasons.
When these reasons involve things that their current employer can change fairly ...
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Do recruiters have to say where they get their contact info?
I've increasingly been getting recruiter emails at my personal email address, and on occasion even my work address (!). As I've never personally reached out to these people or companies, and I'm not ...
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It is standard to reply to recruiters immediately with a salary demand?
When I am contacted by a recruiter regarding a position, I reply by giving them my current salary and request a 20% raise to consider the position and then attach my resume.
Is this standard?
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